{"id":28073,"date":"2016-08-26T08:24:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T08:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-for-a-female-president\/"},"modified":"2016-08-30T02:59:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T02:59:20","slug":"rwanda-for-a-female-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-for-a-female-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda for a female president?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Only eleven months are remaining for Rwanda to hold presidential elections.}<\/p>\n<p>Presidential elections become a great moment for democratic countries where citizens are supposed to carefully choose a candidate who will serve for common interest and work for national development. Any choice made greatly impacts the entire population.  <\/p>\n<p>Many Rwandans eligible to vote have demonstrated their preferences of desired leader as more than 4 million citizens petitioned  parliament last year requesting for amendment of the  constitution to allow President Paul Kagame run for a third term. <\/p>\n<p>Such choices don\u2019t hinder interested individuals who are willing to stand for presidency. <\/p>\n<p>Recently IGIHE talked to the president of PS Imberakuri political party, Mukabunane Christine who is one among five women leading political parties in Rwanda and likely to stand for presidency. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only me, we have other women eligible to be presidential candidates,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Mukabunane said that she hopes to get support if PS Imberakuri nominates her a presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision of nominating a presidential candidate will be taken by our political congress. The approved candidate will be declared and supported,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the question of whether she can lead 12 million Rwandans Mukabunani said; \u201cWhy not? As long as I have capacity of leading the country? Many people have the capacity of leading the country,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Mukabaramba Alvera was the sole woman candidate in 2003 and 2010 presidential elections under the auspices of  Party of  Progress and Concord (PPC) political party.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14553 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_2231.jpg\" alt=\"The president of PS Imberakuri political party, Mukabunane Christine\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Only eleven months are remaining for Rwanda to hold presidential elections.} Presidential elections become a great moment for democratic countries where citizens are supposed to carefully choose a candidate who will serve for common interest and work for national development. Any choice made greatly impacts the entire population. Many Rwandans eligible to vote have demonstrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28073","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=28073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28073"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28073"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}