{"id":34936,"date":"2017-06-02T14:10:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T14:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/psd-may-support-another-presidential-candidate\/"},"modified":"2017-06-05T14:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T14:41:11","slug":"psd-may-support-another-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/psd-may-support-another-presidential-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"PSD may support another presidential candidate outside their party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Two political parties including Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Liberal Party (PL) have announced plan to nominate flag bearers for upcoming presidential elections scheduled in August 2017 over the weekend.} <\/p>\n<p>The general secretary of PSD, Dr Ngabitsinze Jean Chrisostome has told IGIHE that the party will hold congress on 3rd June 2017 where it will decide on a flag bearer during presidential polls based on wishes from its members countrywide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c We have raised two options including selection of our candidate or support another candidate with a good vision\u2026We will have taken a decision from both alternatives at the end of the anticipated congress by 6:00 pm,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>The president of PL, Honorable Mukabalisa Donatille has told IGIHE that they will hold a congress on Sunday 4th June 2017 during which they will discuss the presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>RPF is also holding elections countrywide to select the flag bearer.  Dr. Frank Habineza was nominated the flag bearer for Green Party.<\/p>\n<p>There are so far three independent candidates that have declared their presidential ambitions. These include; Philippe Mpayimana, Diane Rwigara and Mwenedata Gilbert.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20522 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3k1a2475.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Vincent Biruta, the president of Social Democratic Party (PSD)\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Two political parties including Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Liberal Party (PL) have announced plan to nominate flag bearers for upcoming presidential elections scheduled in August 2017 over the weekend.} The general secretary of PSD, Dr Ngabitsinze Jean Chrisostome has told IGIHE that the party will hold congress on 3rd June 2017 where it will [&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-34936","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\/34936","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=34936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34936"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34936"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}