{"id":30303,"date":"2016-11-15T00:09:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T00:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/no-ghost-political-parties-in-rwanda-prof-shyaka\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T19:15:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T19:15:11","slug":"no-ghost-political-parties-in-rwanda-prof-shyaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/no-ghost-political-parties-in-rwanda-prof-shyaka\/","title":{"rendered":"No ghost political parties in Rwanda- Prof Shyaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The CEO of Rwanda Governance Board (RGB), Prof Shyaka Anastase has said that all political parties in Rwanda have value and can\u2019t be prohibited from participating in next year\u2019s presidential elections. }<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Shyaka who was appearing on a radio  talk  show on Radio Rwanda denied that  there are weak political parties in Rwanda that are politically inert and  working behind powerful political parties.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can ghost political parties exist in Rwanda? It would be dishonest to ask Rwandans whether there is a ghost political party in the country,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>He however explained that political parties do not have equal influence and strength.<br \/>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t call a political party is represented in parliament a ghost institution. What is the basis of calling it ghost? Even when the political party is not represented in parliament but shares ideas, why would you call it ghost?\u201d he wondered. <\/p>\n<p> Commenting on the environment of political space in Rwanda, the executive secretary of the National Consultative NFPO of Political Organizations (NFPO), Burasanzwe Oswald said that political parties in Rwanda have freedom. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery political party has freedom and constitutionally   allowed field candidates which they will in upcoming elections, set own political framework, goals and manifesto,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Shyaka said that only political parties registered with RGB are eligible to operate in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16393 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/shyaka-8.jpg\" alt=\"The CEO of Rwanda Governance Board (RGB), Prof Shyaka Anastase\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The CEO of Rwanda Governance Board (RGB), Prof Shyaka Anastase has said that all political parties in Rwanda have value and can\u2019t be prohibited from participating in next year\u2019s presidential elections. } Prof. Shyaka who was appearing on a radio talk show on Radio Rwanda denied that there are weak political parties in Rwanda that [&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":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-30303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30303","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=30303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30303"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30303"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}