{"id":3595,"date":"2015-06-05T09:32:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T09:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2015-06-05T09:32:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T09:32:27","slug":"rwanda-opposition-seeks-to-block-president-term-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/06\/05\/rwanda-opposition-seeks-to-block-president-term-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda opposition seeks to block president term extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda&#8217;s opposition Democratic Green Party has filed a lawsuit demanding the Supreme Court block any move by parliament to change the constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to run for a third term.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame, whose second seven-year term ends in 2017, has said he opposes the lifting of a two-term limit but is open to staying on if people convince him.<\/p>\n<p>Several politicians and other petitioners have called for a change.<\/p>\n<p>The debate about term limits and challenges to veteran leaders have flared in several places in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and other Western nations have been pressing African leaders to stick to constitutional rules on presidential terms.<\/p>\n<p>In next door Burundi, protests have rumbled on for more than a month with opponents accusing President Pierre Nkurunziza of violating the constitution by seeking a third term.<\/p>\n<p>Nkurunziza cites a constitutional court ruling saying he can run.<\/p>\n<p>Article 101 of Rwanda&#8217;s constitution says the president&#8217;s seven-year term can be renewed once and &#8220;under no circumstances&#8221; should a person hold the office of president for more than two terms. &#8211;Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda&#8217;s opposition Democratic Green Party has filed a lawsuit demanding the Supreme Court block any move by parliament to change the constitution to allow President Paul Kagame to run for a third term. Kagame, whose second seven-year term ends in 2017, has said he opposes the lifting of a two-term limit but is open to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","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=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}