{"id":14599,"date":"2015-12-19T12:59:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=14599"},"modified":"2015-12-19T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T10:59:13","slug":"rwanda-votes-yes-to-allow-extra-terms-for-paul-kagame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/12\/19\/rwanda-votes-yes-to-allow-extra-terms-for-paul-kagame\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda votes yes to allow extra terms for Paul Kagame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda has voted to change the constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to potentially rule until 2034, according to partial referendum results, election officials said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen the will of the people. It&#8217;s clear that what the people want, they can achieve,&#8221; said National Electoral Commission chief Kalisa Mbanda, unveiling preliminary results from some 70 per cent of the country and announcing a &#8216;yes&#8217; vote of 98.1 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment allows Kagame to run for a third seven-year term in 2017, at the end of which the new rules take effect and he will be eligible to run for a further two five-year terms.<br \/>\nKagame has run Rwanda since his ethnic Tutsi rebel army, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), ended a 1994 genocide by extremists from the Hutu majority.<br \/>\nOn Friday, the EU delegation in Kigali said there had been a lack of &#8220;sufficient time and space for debate&#8221; on the issue.<br \/>\nThe country&#8217;s tiny opposition Green Party also protested it was impossible to organise a counter campaign at such short notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda has voted to change the constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to potentially rule until 2034, according to partial referendum results, election officials said on Saturday. &#8220;We have seen the will of the people. It&#8217;s clear that what the people want, they can achieve,&#8221; said National Electoral Commission chief Kalisa Mbanda, unveiling preliminary results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}