{"id":8746,"date":"2018-05-17T08:07:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8746"},"modified":"2018-05-17T08:07:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:07:35","slug":"burundi-about-to-start-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-about-to-start-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi about to start referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the 17 May referendum, the preparations are going well. In the afternoon of 16 May, all voting centers were supplied with heavy and sensible materials needed. In Kanyosha zone of Muha Commune in the capital Bujumbura, electoral agents are busy supplying 243 voting centers located in the office of the Muha Communal Electoral Commission with all materials.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8747\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8747\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8747\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CECI-Muha-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Electoral materials given to different voting centers \" width=\"440\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CECI-Muha-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CECI-Muha-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CECI-Muha-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CECI-Muha.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Electoral materials given to different voting centers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ballots, indelible ink, stamps, calculators, ballot boxes, solar lamps, seals\u2026 were ready on 16 May, around midday. The situation was similar in the office of the Mukaza Communal Electoral Commission. On 16 May, around 1:00p.m, the distribution of the remaining voting cards was suspended in order to supply the electoral materials at different voting centers.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00e9rence Bizimana, Chairman of the Provincial Independent Electoral Commission in the capital Bujumbura says 931 voting centers are available in the capital Bujumbura for 457 681 voters grouped into three communes-Muha, Ntahangwa and Mukaza. \u201cAll heavy and sensible materials must be given to voting centers,\u201d says Bizimana.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, CENI Chairman says all the electoral materials must be available at all voting centers throughout the country. \u201cThe voting centers will open at 6:00 a.m. All necessary security measures have been taken for the smooth running of the entire electoral process,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the 17 May referendum, the preparations are going well. In the afternoon of 16 May, all voting centers were supplied with heavy and sensible materials needed. In Kanyosha zone of Muha Commune in the capital Bujumbura, electoral agents are busy supplying 243 voting centers located in the office of the Muha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[108,1284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8748,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746\/revisions\/8748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}