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Burundi: only one candidate remaining in the race for presidency
The main Tutsi party had announced the withdrawal of his candidate from the presidential elections. Thus, the President, Pierre Nkurunziza, a Hutu, is the only one and unique candidate to succeed to himself in what seems to be a fake race to the presidency…Bonaventure Niyoyankana, the president of the UPRONA party who justified the decision of wihdrawal “by the grave political crisis engendered by the fraudulent elections of May 24th, as well as by the absence of treatment of the appeals introduced with the electoral Commission and with its dismemberments. Yves Sahinguvu, first vice-president and leader of the UPRONA, gave up by fearing the frauds. He said.
The president of the electoral commission, Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, had called the candidates who withdrew from the race to cancel their decision. He recognised that there had been logistic problems during the ballot in, but were remedied.
He called back that the European Union observers asserted that the municipal elections had taken place in respect for the international standards. He voiced also that the international community representatives in Burundi regretted the of the opposition parties’ decision to withdraw from the presidential elections and called them to return on their decision. But the parties of the opposition, members of the “Alliance of Democrats the change” (ADC), consider the international community statement as sign of “ non-consideration of the Burundian people “.
Burundi is not “a banana republic in which the large-scale corruption, the electoral frauds, the violations of human rights as well as the oppression, can remain tolerated, and without accountability”. Léonard Nyangoma, the opposition spokesman had stated.