{"id":19597,"date":"2015-05-25T01:42:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T01:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dr-vincent-biruta-re-elected-psd-president-as-the\/"},"modified":"2015-05-25T01:41:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T01:41:55","slug":"dr-vincent-biruta-re-elected-psd-president-as-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dr-vincent-biruta-re-elected-psd-president-as-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Vincent Biruta re-elected PSD President as The Party calls for Constitution Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Dr Vincent Biruta was re-elected President of The Social Democratic Party of Rwanda (PSD) during Saturday vote where members also discussed the amendment of the Rwandan Constitution to lift presidential term limits.}<\/p>\n<p>Biruta won 661 of 670 votes. <\/p>\n<p>During this exercise, only three of the seven leading members of the party were elected back to their posts. <\/p>\n<p>New entrants include the Rwandan diplomat at the UN, Olivier Nduhungirehe who was elected first vice president of the Party and V\u00e9n\u00e9rande Nyirahirwa, 2nd Vice President. <\/p>\n<p>The General Secretariat of the party falls to Jean Chrisostome Ngabitsinze assisted by Aur\u00e9lie Gahongayire (Gender and Women&#8217;s Development) and Th\u00e9odomir Niyonsenga (Youth). <\/p>\n<p>During the vote Biruta thanks voters who trusted him adding that the party will invest more efforts in recruiting new members<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Dr Vincent Biruta was re-elected President of The Social Democratic Party of Rwanda (PSD) during Saturday vote where members also discussed the amendment of the Rwandan Constitution to lift presidential term limits.} Biruta won 661 of 670 votes. During this exercise, only three of the seven leading members of the party were elected back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000068653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-19597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000068653,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19597.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19597.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19597.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19597.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19597.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton19597.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000068653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19597"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=19597"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=19597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}