{"id":8761,"date":"2018-05-17T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8761"},"modified":"2018-05-17T15:52:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:52:55","slug":"bujumbura-voters-complain-about-lack-of-diversity-of-political-supervisors-in-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/bujumbura-voters-complain-about-lack-of-diversity-of-political-supervisors-in-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Bujumbura: Voters complain about lack of diversity of political supervisors in referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around 6:00a.m., all polling stations were open in the capital Bujumbura. At Mutanga-Sud Fundamental School, many voters have lined up before eight polling stations. Security forces were around. However, voters complained about the slow going of the process. \u201cI have spent two hours queuing. I don\u2019t know why the process is sluggish\u201d, said a voter met in Mutanga Sud, around 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

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Long queues of voters at \u201cKibanguiste\u201d polling station in Mutakura neighborhood, Bujumbura<\/p><\/div>\n

At \u201cLyc\u00e9e Municipal Gikungu\u201d in Ntahangwa commune, about 1500 out of 3924 expected voters have already cast a vote around 9:30 a.m. Out of 18 political supervisors, 14 were from the ruling party CNDD-FDD and 4 from \u201cAmizero y\u2019Abarundi\u201d opposition coalition. According to one of the electoral agents, additional voters such as police agents, soldiers and interns were allowed to vote. She also says young people under 18 years were not allowed to vote. \u201cWe must verify their IDs and voting cards,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

At \u201cKibanguiste\u201d Fundamental school polling station, in Mutakura neighborhood , there were 14 election supervisors from the ruling party-CNDD-FDD, one from \u201cAmizero y\u2019Abarundi\u201d coalition , four from the civil society \u201cFontaine Isoko\u201d and one from the CODIP civil society organization. Around 10:30 a.m., 2034 have already voted out of 5312 expected electors. Soldiers were also present to ensure security.
\nAt \u201cLyc\u00e9e technique Don De Dieu\u201d polling station in Cibitoke neighborhood in the capital Bujumbura, voters complained about the lack of diversity among the observers and political supervisors in the referendum. \u201cWe fear the lack of impartiality in this referendum. All the observers and political observers are from the same political party\u201d, says a voter met in Mutakura. Of 19 political supervisors who were present, 14 agents were from the ruling party and 5 from UPRONA party. There was also one person from the civil society organization. Out of 3363 expected voters, 2249 had already voted at 10:25 a.m.<\/p>\n

In Gihosha neighborhood in the north of the Burundian capital, the voting center was subdivided into 22 polling stations. Of the 10, 481 expected voters, 6,287 had already voted. Few voters were still lining up. Voters who registered outside Gihosha voting centers were not allowed to vote. \u201cThe National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI allows that only soldiers, police agents, journalists vote at any polling station,\u201d says an electoral agent.<\/p>\n

Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, CENI Chairman, said polling stations were expected to close at 4: 00 p.m. \u201cThe electoral agents will proceed with the counting of votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Around 6:00a.m., all polling stations were open in the capital Bujumbura. At Mutanga-Sud Fundamental School, many voters have lined up before eight polling stations. Security forces were around. However, voters complained about the slow going of the process. \u201cI have spent two hours queuing. I don\u2019t know why the process is sluggish\u201d, said a voter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[108,1284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761"}],"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=8761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8765,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions\/8765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}