{"id":37703,"date":"2018-06-13T20:42:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T20:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/parliamentary-polls-independent-candidates-to\/"},"modified":"2018-06-17T10:57:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T10:57:20","slug":"parliamentary-polls-independent-candidates-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/parliamentary-polls-independent-candidates-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary Polls: Independent candidates to start collecting signatures for their candidature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to NEC, the process begins Wednesday 13th and runs until July 25th. It will take place starting 7:00am to 5:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>For a potential independent candidate to be eligible to compete for a seat in parliament, according to the electoral code, they should have 600  signatures of voters supporting the candidate.  <\/p>\n<p>Members of Parliament elections are due September 2nd to Rwandans living abroad and September 3rd to those in the country.<\/p>\n<p>For an independent candidate to be able to secure a seat in parliament, they should at least earn 5% of the votes of total voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Electoral Commission (NEC) has issued permission to potential independent candidates to start collecting signatures supporting their candidature ahead of the September 2018 parliamentary elections.<\/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-37703","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\/37703","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=37703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37703"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37703"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}