{"id":37786,"date":"2018-06-29T10:12:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T10:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nec-political-parties-discuss-september\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T10:12:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T10:12:33","slug":"nec-political-parties-discuss-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nec-political-parties-discuss-september\/","title":{"rendered":"NEC, political parties discuss September parliamentary elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mbanda was speaking Thursday in Kigali in a meeting with the Forum of Political Parties in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was aimed at discussing the preparatory process of parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>He said that for the elections to run smoothly, NEC should work with different institutions including political parties as major stakeholders. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cPolitical parties are vital partners in elections. They are the ones providing candidates for Parliamentary elections and their representatives\u2019 ideas contribute to the establishment of national laws,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media, Mbanda said that meeting political parties\u2019 representatives is in line with the preparatory process. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe request them to contribute towards civic education by mobilising their members,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The Spokesperson of Political Party Forum, Elisabeth Mukamana said that they are ready to contribute by encouraging people to participate in elections.<\/p>\n<p>Mukamana is optimistic that the elections will be smoothly conducted. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, NEC announced that they received six Private Candidates seeking documents allowing them to collect signatures supporting their candidacies.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25954 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/prof_kalisa_mbanda-6de82.jpg\" alt=\"Mbanda speaks yesterday in the meeting \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25953 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_2859-4-50121.jpg\" alt=\"NEC and political parties yesterday discussed September parliamentary elections\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of National Electoral Commission (NEC), Prof Kalisa Mbanda has requested political parties to play active a role in enabling smoother parliamentary electoral process this 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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37786","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\/37786","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=37786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37786"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37786"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}