{"id":37679,"date":"2018-06-10T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mps-polls-rpf-elects-flag-bearers\/"},"modified":"2018-06-12T09:11:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:11:50","slug":"mps-polls-rpf-elects-flag-bearers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mps-polls-rpf-elects-flag-bearers\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs polls: RPF elects flag bearers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The primaries took place at district level by selecting four people from the 20 most successful candidates voted last week at the cell level.<\/p>\n

In each district, four people, two women and two men who will make the final list to be submitted to National Electoral Commission (NEC) were elected. <\/p>\n

IGIHE visited Nyarugenge District polling site where aspirants were explaining their manifestos to the electorate. Eugene Barikana and Edda Mukabagwiza who had been in parliament were re-elected. Others elected are Brigitte Gafaranga and Lambert Mucyo.<\/p>\n

NEC will start to receive candidacy from 12th to 25th July and campaigns will start from August 13th to September 1st 2018. <\/p>\n

Elections are slated on September 2nd for Rwandans in the diaspora while Rwandans in the country will elect on September 3rd.<\/p>\n

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Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) on Saturday continued the process of electing party flag bearers in the upcoming Parliamentary Elections slated for September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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-37679","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\/37679","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37679"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37679"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}