{"id":15509,"date":"2023-09-21T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T14:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15509"},"modified":"2023-09-21T14:34:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T14:34:39","slug":"president-kagame-goes-for-fourth-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15509","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame Goes For Fourth Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has said for the first time that he plans to run for a fourth term in office in the forthcoming elections due to be held next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cYes, I am indeed a candidate,\u201d Kagame, who has ruled over the country with an iron fist for decades, told Jeune Afrique, a French-language news magazine, in an interview published online on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI am pleased with the confidence that Rwandans have placed in me. I will always serve them, as long as I can,\u201d the 65-year-old was quoted as saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Rwandan government in March decided to synchronise the dates for its parliamentary and presidential elections, which are due to be held in August next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kagame had previously not made his intentions clear but has presided over controversial constitutional amendments that allowed him to serve a third term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A former rebel chief, Kagame has been regarded as the country\u2019s de facto leader since the end of the 1994 genocide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He won a third term in 2017, taking home nearly 99 percent of the votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has said for the first time that he plans to run for a fourth term in office in the forthcoming elections due to be held next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7636,7637,386],"class_list":["post-15509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fourth-term","tag-president-paul-kagame","tag-rwanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15511,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15509\/revisions\/15511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}