{"id":27353,"date":"2016-08-01T10:36:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T10:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mukabalisa-elected-pl-president\/"},"modified":"2016-08-04T01:08:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T01:08:29","slug":"mukabalisa-elected-pl-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mukabalisa-elected-pl-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukabalisa elected PL President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Mukabalisa Donatille, Speaker of the Rwandan parliament has been elected to lead the Liberal Party (PL), one of Rwanda\u2019s political parties .Mukabalisa replaces  Protais Mitali who was dismissed from duties following an impeachment  accused of misallocating resources of  the  party.  }<\/p>\n<p>Mukabalisa was appointed as the sole candidate to lead PL and was yesterday elected president of PL with 569 out of 577 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Munyangeyo Th\u00e9og\u00e8ne was elected the first vice president after garnering  472(81.8%) out of 577 voters.<\/p>\n<p>Mukabalisa, who promised good performance, has been the acting leader of PL\u2019s committee after Mitali fled. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have believed in us and so we will make sure to  fulfill the responsibilities as we have willingness and capacity to make it,\u201d she said, calling  for collaboration between PL members from across the country to uplift the political party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe request you to work  closely with us to achieve more which can be gained  if we unite, share good ideas, capacities and commitment.There is nothing to worry of since our political party has a vision and potential leaders,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mukabalisa urged PL members to be exemplary in implementing government programs. <\/p>\n<p>PL was established in 1991.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13895 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pl_perezida_yishimira_intsinzi.jpg\" alt=\"Mukabalisa celebrating the victory \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Mukabalisa Donatille, Speaker of the Rwandan parliament has been elected to lead the Liberal Party (PL), one of Rwanda\u2019s political parties .Mukabalisa replaces Protais Mitali who was dismissed from duties following an impeachment accused of misallocating resources of the party. } Mukabalisa was appointed as the sole candidate to lead PL and was yesterday elected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-27353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27353","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=27353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27353"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27353"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}