{"id":38002,"date":"2018-08-14T12:39:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/psd-launches-parliamentary-campaign-in-ngoma\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T14:57:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T14:57:10","slug":"psd-launches-parliamentary-campaign-in-ngoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/psd-launches-parliamentary-campaign-in-ngoma\/","title":{"rendered":"PSD launches parliamentary campaign in Ngoma, pledges agricultural reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the rally on Monday, Dr Jean Chrysostome Ngabitsinze, the PSD Executive Secretary and the party\u2019s number one candidate for a seat in the Lower House, said PSD intends to promote the livelihoods of the farmers through putting in place sustainable programmes, considering that the country\u2019s economy is largely based on agriculture and livestock.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur country has fertile land and hard working farmers but we have to improve some areas with better planning in agriculture and animal resources sector. As PSD, we want to be a good advocate, to advocate on separating agriculture and animal resources to get each area develop better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said PSD will teach farmers on better practices and find them markets for the produces.<\/p>\n

Dr Ngabitsinze said the party will seek to exempt taxes on the salary which is below Rwf60,0000 while the current law taxes the salary from Rwf30,000.<\/p>\n

PSD President Dr Vincent Biruta said the party is proud of its contribution in the reconstruction of Rwanda after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi that had devastated the country. <\/p>\n

\u201cPSD has played a crucial role in reconstructing the country towards peace, unity, reconciliation and development. We are proud of the step we have made in democracy in our country. PSD is prepared to keep contributing in the country\u2019s governance and development,\u201d said Dr Biruta who is the Minister for Environment.
\nPSD has been in existence for 27 years and was in the coalition of parties which fought the genocidal regime in the 1990s. <\/p>\n

After the genocide, PSD has been alongside the citizens in the reconstruction process and putting in place foundations for the governance that leads to the country\u2019s development, democracy, justice and social welfare of the citizens. <\/p>\n

In the 2003 presidential elections, PSD rallied behind then RPF candidate Paul Kagame but in 2010, PSD put forward its presidential candidate Dr Jean Damasc\u00e8ne Ntawukuriryayo who won the second place in votes behind the RPF\u2019s Paul Kagame.<\/p>\n

PSD also emerged the second in 2013 parliamentary elections and acquired seven seats in Rwanda\u2019s Parliament. <\/p>\n

In 2015 PSD was part of the political parties and individual Rwandans who campaigned for the Constitution amendment to allow President Paul Kagame to run for the third term, citing his unrivalled leadership. The Constitution was later amended by the November 2015 Referendum, removing the two seven-year term limit that Kagame was serving until 2017 and allowed him a seven-year transition term ending in 2024 and two five-year terms thereafter. <\/p>\n

In the 2017 presidential elections, PSD also rallied behind the RPF\u2019s Kagame who won the elections.<\/p>\n

For the upcoming parliamentary elections slated for September 2 and 3, PSD has now put forward 65 candidates among whom are 40 male and 25 female. <\/p>\n

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Social Democratic Party (PSD) has launched its parliamentary campaign in Ngoma District, Eastern Province, with a pledge to revamp agriculture and exempt taxes for the low-income earners. <\/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":[69],"byline":[195],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-jean-damour-mugabo"],"bylines":[{"id":195,"name":"Jean d'Amour Mugabo","slug":"jean-damour-mugabo","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":21}],"contributors":[{"id":195,"name":"Jean d'Amour Mugabo","slug":"jean-damour-mugabo","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":21}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38002","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=38002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38002"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38002"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}