{"id":8775,"date":"2018-05-18T15:59:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8775"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:34:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:34:27","slug":"burundi-politicians-disagree-over-17-may-referendum-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-politicians-disagree-over-17-may-referendum-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi: Politicians disagree over 17 May referendum running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the 17 May referendum, Burundians are still waiting for the results from the National Independent Electoral Commission. However, politicians do not converge on the way the referendum was run. Pierre C\u00e9lestin Ndikumana, chairman of the Parliamentary group of MPs from the coalition of Independents \u201cAmizero y\u2019Abarundi\u201d, says there was no election. \u201cIt&#8217;s a masquerade, a fabrication and a game,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7925\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7925\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7925\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Pierre-C\u00e9l\u00e9stin-Ndikumana-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pierre C\u00e9l\u00e9stin Ndikumana: \u201cIt's a masquerade, a fabrication and a game,\u201d\" width=\"405\" height=\"282\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierre C\u00e9l\u00e9stin Ndikumana: \u201cIt&#8217;s a masquerade, a fabrication and a game,\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ndikumana says the provisional results tend to give victory to \u2018the vote for\u2019 the constitutional amendment. He, however, says the counting was done in the presence of the members of the ruling party-CNDD-FDD only. \u201cOur political supervisors were targeted to be arrested. They were accused of teaching people to vote \u201cNo\u201d in queues,\u201d he says. Ndikumana says it was a well-prepared and nationwide plan. \u201cPeople voted for others even though they were not mandated to do so\u2019, he says.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the Parliamentary group of MPs from the coalition of Independents \u201cAmizero y\u2019Abarundi\u2019 also says that other members of the coalition have been arrested before the election.<br \/>\nPierre C\u00e9lestin Ndikumana urges the international community not to endorse the outcome of the referendum.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of Uprona party, Abel Gashatsi says the referendum process went well although people were strongly sensitized. \u201cBurundians were on time. Security forces ensure the polling stations well and the political supervisors were also present,\u201d he says. He also says any case of irregularity has not been reported throughout the country. Gashatsi called on all Burundians in general, and its Uprona supporters in particular, to respect the referendum results. \u201cPoliticians must also understand that people continue to live even after elections. Respecting the results of vote is very important,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the 17 May referendum, Burundians are still waiting for the results from the National Independent Electoral Commission. However, politicians do not converge on the way the referendum was run. Pierre C\u00e9lestin Ndikumana, chairman of the Parliamentary group of MPs from the coalition of Independents \u201cAmizero y\u2019Abarundi\u201d, says there was no election. \u201cIt&#8217;s a masquerade, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[113,1284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775"}],"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=8775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8776,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions\/8776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}