{"id":34328,"date":"2017-05-03T12:43:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/independent-presidential-candidates-to-solicit\/"},"modified":"2017-05-04T13:23:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:23:47","slug":"independent-presidential-candidates-to-solicit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/independent-presidential-candidates-to-solicit\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent presidential candidates to solicit signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has announced that independent presidential aspirants should start soliciting for 600 signatures countrywide as required by law. } <\/p>\n<p>Presidential polls in Rwanda are slated for 4th August 2017 for eligible citizens inside the country and 3rd August 2017 for Rwanda diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>The NEC executive secretary , Charles Munyaneza has told IGIHE that contenders are left  with few days to solicit for the signatures of supporters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffective 12th May 2017, we will release lists of independent presidential candidates\u2019 supporters. It is required to make the list one month or 30 days before registering for candidature according to regulations,\u201d said Munyaneza. <\/p>\n<p>Independent aspiring presidential candidates include; Philippe Mpayimana, Jean Mbanda and Father Nahimana Thomas.  <\/p>\n<p>Dr Frank Habineza has been confirmed as the representative of Democratic Green Party during presidential polls while RPF Inkotanyi is yet to announce its flag bearer.  <\/p>\n<p>However, more than 3.7 million Rwandans (98.3%) through a December 2015 referendum petitioned President Paul Kagame to run for presidency. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19767 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mpayimana2-c8cfa-84895.jpg\" alt=\"Philippe Mpayimana is among Independent aspiring presidential candidates.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has announced that independent presidential aspirants should start soliciting for 600 signatures countrywide as required by law. } Presidential polls in Rwanda are slated for 4th August 2017 for eligible citizens inside the country and 3rd August 2017 for Rwanda diaspora. The NEC executive secretary , Charles Munyaneza has told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-34328","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\/34328","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34328"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34328"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}