{"id":32639,"date":"2017-02-17T07:04:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T07:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nyamurinda-pascal-elected-kigali-mayor\/"},"modified":"2017-02-20T02:02:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T02:02:56","slug":"nyamurinda-pascal-elected-kigali-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nyamurinda-pascal-elected-kigali-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyamurinda Pascal elected Kigali  mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Nyamurinda Pascal has been elected Kigali City mayor after beating his competitor Umuhiza Aurore with  161 over  35 votes.}<\/p>\n<p>The final  results have been declared by the president of National Electoral Commission, Prof Kalisa Mbanda.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasing on the cast  votes, Nyamurinda Pascal has won elections with 161 while Aurore has obtained 35 votes.  This means that Nyamurinda Pascal becomes the mayor of Kigali City,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The elections have taken place in Kigali City Council hall.<\/p>\n<p>Pascal Nyamurinda was the Director General of National Identification Agency (NIDA).<br \/>\nUmuhoza Aurore worked with Soras for 10 years from where he went to work with  Sonarwa in human resources department. <\/p>\n<p>The outgoing mayor Mukaruliza Monique was in the seat for 314 days before being  appointed Rwanda\u2019s ambassador to Zambia early  February.  <\/p>\n<p>From 1994 to 2016, Kigali city has been led by six mayors including those who led it when it was a prefecture. <\/p>\n<p>These include Lt Col. (he was major at the time) Rosa Kabuye (1994- 1997), MusoniProtais (1997-1999) , Kabandana Marc (1999- 2001).<\/p>\n<p>Others are mayor MutsindashyakaTh\u00e9oneste (2001-2006), Kirabo Aissa Kacyira (2006-2011), NdayisabaFid\u00e8le(2011- 2016) andMukaruliza Monique (2016-2017).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18301 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b9911-4bdca.jpg\" alt=\"Nyamurinda Pascal who has been elected Kigali  mayor. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Nyamurinda Pascal has been elected Kigali City mayor after beating his competitor Umuhiza Aurore with 161 over 35 votes.} The final results have been declared by the president of National Electoral Commission, Prof Kalisa Mbanda. \u201cBasing on the cast votes, Nyamurinda Pascal has won elections with 161 while Aurore has obtained 35 votes. This means [&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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/32639","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=32639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32639"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32639"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}