{"id":47805,"date":"2023-04-03T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rpf-inkotanyi-re-elects-kagame-as-chairman-at-national-congress\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T11:39:33","slug":"rpf-inkotanyi-re-elects-kagame-as-chairman-at-national-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rpf-inkotanyi-re-elects-kagame-as-chairman-at-national-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"RPF-Inkotanyi re-elects Kagame as Chairman at National Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

The President’s candidacy was seconded by Senator Marie-Rose Mureshyankwano, who praised him as a selfless leader who has delivered positive results to the party. <\/p>\n

Kagame’s only challenger was Abdul Karim Harerimana, who announced his candidacy but was only able to secure three votes out of 2,102 voters.<\/p>\n

In addition to the re-election of President Kagame, on 2nd April 2023, the congress also saw the election of the party’s first-ever female Vice President, Consolee Uwimana, who was endorsed by party elder Tito Rutaremara and received 1,945 votes. <\/p>\n

Uwimana’s election is a significant milestone for the party, as it marks the first time a woman has been elected as the party’s number two.<\/p>\n

The congress also elected a new Secretary General, Wellars Gasamagera, who received 1,899 votes. Gasamagera replaces Fran\u00e7ois Ngarambe in the role. Uwimana, on the other hand, replaces Christophe Bazivamo.<\/p>\n

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\"Consolee<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{President Paul Kagame has been re-elected as the Chairman of the ruling party RPF-Inkotanyi during the 16th national congress held at the party’s headquarters in Rusororo. } <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/47805","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47805"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47805"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}