{"id":37410,"date":"2018-05-02T18:47:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T18:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kigali-city-mayor-by-election-due-in-three-weeks\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T18:46:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T18:46:48","slug":"kigali-city-mayor-by-election-due-in-three-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kigali-city-mayor-by-election-due-in-three-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kigali city mayor by-election due in three weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to IGIHE, the National Electoral Commission Executive Secretary, Munyaneza Charles, said that the body hasn&#8217;t yet received any Candidatures for those who wish to fill in the post, awaiting the next Monday deadline.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201c Nyamulinda resigned as Kigali City mayorship as well as the Gasabo District Council membership. There will be elections in Nduba sector, where a person will fill in the vacant place in the district council. This will be followed up with the establishment of the Committee\u201d, he said<\/p>\n<p>The City Council noted that it is aware of the gap and is working on terms of reference for the recruitment of a replacement in coming days.<br \/>\nNyamulinda Pascal resigned his duties on April 10th, 2018, due citing personal reasons, just over a year in office.<\/p>\n<p>Busabizwa Parfait who was Nyamulinda&#8217;s assistant is temporally acting in the interim capacity prior to the election of a new mayor.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25055 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ibiro_by_umujyi_wa_kigali-3-0c557.jpg\" alt=\"Kigali City&#039;s Headquarters \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Electoral Commission has announced a by-election in three weeks time for a new Kigali City mayor, following the sudden resignation of the former mayor, Pascal Nyamulinda.<\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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\/37410","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=37410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37410"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37410"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}