{"id":2000109964,"date":"2026-04-26T13:25:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000109964"},"modified":"2026-04-26T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:25:36","slug":"burundi-ruling-party-confirms-ndayishimiye-as-2027-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/burundi-ruling-party-confirms-ndayishimiye-as-2027-presidential-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi ruling party confirms Ndayishimiye as 2027 presidential candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The decision was announced on Sunday, April 26, 2026, following an Extraordinary National Congress of the Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A statement posted on the party\u2019s official X account confirmed that Ndayishimiye will represent the CNDD-FDD in the upcoming presidential poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those considered as potential candidates was the party\u2019s Secretary-General, R\u00e9v\u00e9rien Ndikuriyo. Reports indicate there have been disagreements between him and the President over certain policy directions and their implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If re-elected in 2027, Ndayishimiye would serve a second term as President of Burundi. He first assumed office in 2020 following a general election victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ndayiii-2-3c04c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2000109965\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Burundi\u2019s ruling party, CNDD-FDD, has officially designated President \u00c9variste Ndayishimiye as its candidate for the 2027 presidential election.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi\u2019s ruling party, CNDD-FDD, has officially designated President \u00c9variste Ndayishimiye as its candidate for the 2027 presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000109965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[151,99],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000109964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-editors-choice","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","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":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","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":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000109965,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ndayiii-2-3c04c.jpg","alt":"","caption":"Burundi\u2019s ruling party, CNDD-FDD, has officially designated President \u00c9variste Ndayishimiye as its candidate for the 2027 presidential election.","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1000,"height":667,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ndayiii-2-3c04c.jpg","width":150,"height":100},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ndayiii-2-3c04c.jpg","width":300,"height":200},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ndayiii-2-3c04c.jpg","width":768,"height":512},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ndayiii-2-3c04c.jpg","width":1000,"height":667},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ndayiii-2-3c04c.jpg","width":1000,"height":667}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000109964","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000109964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000109964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000109966,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000109964\/revisions\/2000109966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000109965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000109964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000109964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000109964"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000109964"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000109964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}