{"id":37864,"date":"2018-07-14T20:44:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T20:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/over-2000-observers-for-september-parliamentary\/"},"modified":"2018-07-19T11:01:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T11:01:49","slug":"over-2000-observers-for-september-parliamentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/over-2000-observers-for-september-parliamentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 2000 observers for September parliamentary elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to the press, NEC Chairperson Prof. Kalisa Mbanda said that they have invited electoral observers form inside the country, the region and overseas with representatives from government institutions, civil society organisations, Forum for Political Parties in Rwanda, Embassies and Faith-based organisations\u2019 forum among others.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe expect as many observers as possible of who about  400 will be foreign,\u201d he explained adding that some have confirmed their participation with more expected to confirm in the last weeks of election preparations.<\/p>\n<p>Mbanda added that the report from observers helps in improvement of next electoral  preparations. <\/p>\n<p>Preparations for September elections continue with independent and political representatives submitting candidatures to NEC, an exercise that has been on from July 12th ending July 25th. The final list of approved candidates will be announced on August 6th.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26202 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/indorerezi_za_au_zari_mu_matora_y_umukuru_w_igihugu_mu_2017-44daf.jpg\" alt=\"African Union electoral observers in last year presidential elections\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has announced that they expect to receive over 2000 observers for the September Parliamentary elections.  <\/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-37864","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\/37864","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=37864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37864"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37864"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}