{"id":36925,"date":"2018-02-06T09:33:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T09:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/psd-scrutinizes-aspiring-parliamentary-candidates\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T14:49:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T14:49:31","slug":"psd-scrutinizes-aspiring-parliamentary-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/psd-scrutinizes-aspiring-parliamentary-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"PSD scrutinizes aspiring parliamentary  candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to IGIHE, PSD Secretary General Dr. Jean Chrysostome Ngabitsinze said that the process started last week by registering candidates in districts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur activities include training members about elections processes but also encouraging members aspiring for different positions to start showing the interest and campaigns, a process that will last until the end of March,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>For candidates to qualify, they must have been members of  the party for  a period of two years, well-disciplined and without any criminal record. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the congresses, they also generate ideas that we will use during our manifesto,\u201d Ngabitsinze added.<\/p>\n<p>While in league that took place in Muhanga District last week, Senator Gallican Niyongana gave a lecture about Members of Parliament elections and responsibilities of parliament. He called on league participants to take a lead in sensitizing populations about the elections when the National Electoral Commission (NEC) will announce the campaign. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPSD is in government, and has participated enough in the development that the country has attained, we hope that in these elections we shall bring good manifesto comprising our party\u2019s ideas aimed at continuing to champion social welfare of the people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Every political party competing for seats in parliament provides a list of 80 candidates in NEC.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23945 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/-6138-2-518b9.jpg\" alt=\"PSD Secretary General Dr. Jean Chrysostome Ngabitsinze\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23946 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rf.jpg\" alt=\"Social Democratic Party (PSD) members in Muhanga\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23947 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nes.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democratic Party (PSD) has started registering members aspiring to compete for seats in Parliament ahead of legislators\u2019 elections slated for September this year.<\/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],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/36925","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=36925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36925"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36925"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}