{"id":39989,"date":"2019-09-07T21:50:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T21:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nec-to-organise-fresh-elections-for-replacement\/"},"modified":"2019-09-10T12:46:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T12:46:46","slug":"nec-to-organise-fresh-elections-for-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nec-to-organise-fresh-elections-for-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"NEC to organise fresh elections for replacement of resigned mayors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement follows recent wave of mayoral resignations that started on Tuesday where top officials from Burera, Gicumbi, Musanze, Karongi, Ngororero, Nyamasheke, Rubavu, Rutsiro, Gisagara, Muhanga, Ngoma and Rwamagana districts resigned on account of failure to deliver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNEC informs interested candidates meeting requirements that applications to join advisory councils will be received from 9th 13th September 2019,\u201d reads the announcement signed by NEC Chairman, Prof. Mbanda Kalisa.<\/p>\n<p>District officials including the mayor are elected by the advisory council comprised of sectors\u2019 representatives, youth and women, private sector and of disabled people\u2019s representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has called for interested candidates to express their interest in mayoral positions by submitting testimonials to replace mayors and vice mayors that resigned recently.<\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39989","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\/39989","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=39989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39989"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39989"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}