{"id":55030,"date":"2025-07-27T14:14:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T14:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/car-s-ruling-party-nominates-incumbent-president-as-candidate-in-upcoming\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T13:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:28:38","slug":"car-s-ruling-party-nominates-incumbent-president-as-candidate-in-upcoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/car-s-ruling-party-nominates-incumbent-president-as-candidate-in-upcoming\/","title":{"rendered":"CAR&#8217;s ruling party nominates incumbent president as candidate in upcoming elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision was reached during an ordinary congress of the party in the CAR capital, Bangui.<\/p>\n<p>The supporters of the MCU praised Touadera for his commitment to peace, stability, and national development in a country affected by ongoing conflict with armed groups, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>Touadera was elected CAR president in 2016 and reelected in 2020. In his acceptance speech, Touadera announced the decision to run for a third term in the upcoming December 2025 presidential, legislative and local elections.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-91557 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ynlea4hd7jlhpjo3bkylpbbqg4.jpg\" alt=\"The ruling party of the Central African Republic (CAR), United Hearts Movement (MCU), nominated incumbent president Faustin-Archange Touadera as its presidential candidate on Saturday.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling party of the Central African Republic (CAR), United Hearts Movement (MCU), nominated incumbent president Faustin-Archange Touadera as its presidential candidate on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000091556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","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":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","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":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000091556,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/0ee3107_1691580504700-000-33qd46v.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/0ee3107_1691580504700-000-33qd46v.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/0ee3107_1691580504700-000-33qd46v.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/0ee3107_1691580504700-000-33qd46v.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/0ee3107_1691580504700-000-33qd46v.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/0ee3107_1691580504700-000-33qd46v.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55030","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000091556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55030"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55030"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}