{"id":21658,"date":"2015-12-05T07:16:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T07:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/parliament-goes-into-recess\/"},"modified":"2015-12-05T07:15:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T07:15:59","slug":"parliament-goes-into-recess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/parliament-goes-into-recess\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament goes into recess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The speaker of parliament, Donatille Mukabarisa has commended parliamentarians for efforts made within the just-concluded session of parliament that involved scrutiny of the constitution and effecting some amendments.}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe members of parliament have dully fulfilled their responsibilities in this trimester with utmost dedication,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mukabarisa also noted that parliamentarians have been very considerate and accountable to the public, including gathering opinions from the public, debating and effect the necessary legal opinions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to appreciate everyone that has played a role to respect the process of constitutional amendment,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament in the last trimester, has passed 15 laws including constitutional amendments but of which implementation will approved after a nationwide referendum. This reform includes reducing presidential term limits from seven to five years renewable only once.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the other laws passed are related to public procurement, Public private partnership, among others. <\/p>\n<p>The Rwanda Senate also ended the normal trimester after voting for 11 laws and the reformed constitution. Parliamentarians will be back in the House on 5th February 2016.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-9623 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/depite.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The speaker of parliament, Donatille Mukabarisa has commended parliamentarians for efforts made within the just-concluded session of parliament that involved scrutiny of the constitution and effecting some amendments.} \u201cThe members of parliament have dully fulfilled their responsibilities in this trimester with utmost dedication,\u201d she said. Mukabarisa also noted that parliamentarians have been very considerate and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070643,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21658.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21658.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21658.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21658.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21658.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21658.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21658","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=21658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21658"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21658"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}