{"id":33994,"date":"2017-04-19T10:04:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T10:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/fundraising-before-candidates-approval-prohibited\/"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:39:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T12:39:39","slug":"fundraising-before-candidates-approval-prohibited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/fundraising-before-candidates-approval-prohibited\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising before candidates\u2019 approval prohibited -NEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The National Electoral Commission has condemned acts of  people claiming to be presidential candidates and mobilizing  funds to support their presidential campaigns even before registration is done. } <\/p>\n<p>At the end of February 2017, Mpayimana Philippe arrived in Rwanda from France for presidential campaigns and has been  asking Rwandans to raise funds for him to finance his presidential campaigns.  <\/p>\n<p>Mpayimana declared his chief fund-raiser and phone numbers where the money can be  sent.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2017, Green Party held a General Assembly and approved Dr Frank Habineza as its flag bearer in presidential campaigns during which he requested members of his political party to raise Rwf 1.5 billion to support his presidential campaigns. <\/p>\n<p>NEC has condemned such acts saying it is not allowed to raise funds before eligible presidential contenders are confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c It is prohibited. First , we don\u2019t even have eligible candidates. We will start receiving  presidential candidates from 12th to 23rd June 2017.We will release eligible candidates\u2019 list on 7th July 2017.We will have no candidates before the said date\u201d NEC executive secretary Charles Munyaneza has told IGIHE. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19436 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/munyaneza-charles-umunyamabanga-nshingwabikorwa-wa-komisiyo-yigihugu-yamatora-5-5-2.jpg\" alt=\"NEC executive secretary, Charles Munyaneza.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The National Electoral Commission has condemned acts of people claiming to be presidential candidates and mobilizing funds to support their presidential campaigns even before registration is done. } At the end of February 2017, Mpayimana Philippe arrived in Rwanda from France for presidential campaigns and has been asking Rwandans to raise funds for him to [&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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","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\/33994","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=33994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33994"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33994"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}