{"id":21745,"date":"2015-12-09T06:51:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T06:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/referendum-date-set-to-cost-rwf-2-billion\/"},"modified":"2015-12-11T08:29:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T08:29:38","slug":"referendum-date-set-to-cost-rwf-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/referendum-date-set-to-cost-rwf-2-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Referendum date set, to cost Rwf 2 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

{The cabinet meeting held yesterday in Village Urugwiro approved the constitutional referendum to be held on 17th and 18th December with a budget of of Rwf 2 billion. As approved by the cabinet meeting, Rwandans living abroad will vote on 17th and 18th December, home voting will take place. } <\/p>\n

Based on power granted to him by the constitution, President Paul Kagame has approved the referendum.<\/p>\n

The schedule is confirmed after the recent FPR-Inkotanyi meet held last Sunday which proposed that president Kagame sets the constitutional referendum on 18th December. <\/p>\n

The constitutional referendum preparations will cost Rwf 2 billion, the lowest budget ever, compared to past elections in Rwanda.<\/p>\n

Local leaders elections held between February and March 2011 cost over Rwf 4 billion while elections of members of parliament held in September 2013 took Rwf 6 billion.
\nOver Rwf 6 billion was spent on the budget of 2010 presidential election preparations while more than Rwf 8 billion was spent on the budget of constitutional referendum held in 2003. <\/p>\n

I t is expected the government will spend Rwf5billion on the upcoming local leaders\u2019 elections in 2016 to be held from village to districts levels. <\/p>\n

In a recent interview IGIHE held with Munyaneza Charles, the Executive Secretary of Rwanda National Electoral Commission (RNEC), said that everything is in place to conduct a successful referendum. <\/p>\n

More than 60,000 volunteers are to be trained in referendum preparations and handling. <\/p>\n

The president of RNEC, Prof Kalisa Mbanda told IGIHE the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning has agreed to release the funds to support the constitutional referendum.<\/p>\n

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{The cabinet meeting held yesterday in Village Urugwiro approved the constitutional referendum to be held on 17th and 18th December with a budget of of Rwf 2 billion. As approved by the cabinet meeting, Rwandans living abroad will vote on 17th and 18th December, home voting will take place. } Based on power granted to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070730,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21745.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21745.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21745.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21745.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21745.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21745.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21745","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=21745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21745"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21745"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}