{"id":8813,"date":"2018-05-23T07:20:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T07:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8813"},"modified":"2018-05-24T08:15:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T08:15:18","slug":"results-of-constitutional-referendum-differently-appreciated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/results-of-constitutional-referendum-differently-appreciated\/","title":{"rendered":"Results of constitutional referendum differently appreciated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the publication of the results of the constitutional referendum, different politicians react about these results, highly appreciated by some and heavily criticized by others.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8814\" style=\"width: 452px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8814\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/votant-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"People are voting the constitutional referendum in Ngozi province on May 17, 2018.\" width=\"442\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/votant-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/votant-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/votant-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/votant.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People are voting the constitutional referendum in Ngozi province on May 17, 2018.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>CNDD-FDD party acknowledges the result of the constitutional referendum. Evariste Ndayishimiye, the Secretary General of this party says the referendum allowed Burundians to freely choose what they wanted. \u201cThat polling has shown that Burundi is a democratic country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ndayishimiye says both those who voted against and for the referendum had had time to campaign. He acknowledges the victory and calls on those who have voted against the referendum to accept the result. \u201cThe victory is shared with those who were against. The new constitution, once adopted will be applied to all Burundians\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Georges Nikiza, Spokesperson for the RANAC party says the referendum process was full of irregularities either during the campaign or during the polling. \u201cMembers of political parties campaigning against the referendum were mistreated, others arrested. During elections, some observers from the opposition parties were forced out when they were counting,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Nikiza party says there was an absence of national and international observers. He fears that those irregularities will occur in the upcoming elections. \u201cThe referendum was not free, fair and transparent. The same irregularities may characterize the next elections\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>FRODEBU party also says the constitutional referendum process was full of irregularities since the campaign period. \u201cThere was verbal and physical violence since the beginning of the campaign, the government should therefore reject the results,\u201d reads a declaration made public on May 21.<br \/>\nThe Ombudsman institution acknowledges the result of the referendum and calls on politicians in exile and other refugees to come back to Burundi and prepare the upcoming elections, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the publication of the results of the constitutional referendum, different politicians react about these results, highly appreciated by some and heavily criticized by others. CNDD-FDD party acknowledges the result of the constitutional referendum. Evariste Ndayishimiye, the Secretary General of this party says the referendum allowed Burundians to freely choose what they wanted. \u201cThat polling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"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\/8813"}],"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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8815,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions\/8815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}