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Rwanda's President Paul Kagame confirms He Will Run For A Fourth Term

1 year agoWed, 20 Sep 2023 15:05:02 GMT
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Rwanda's President Paul Kagame confirms He Will Run For A Fourth Term

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has confirmed that he will run for a fourth term in 2024.

The 65-year-old former rebel leader has been considered the country’s de facto leader since the end of the 1994 genocide.

Kagame was returned to power – with over 90% of the vote – in the 2003, 2010 and 2017 elections.

Speaking to the French-language magazine Jeune Afrique, Kagame said he was ready to serve Rwandans for as long as he can. He said:

I am happy with the confidence Rwandans have shown in me. I will always serve them as long as I can. Yes, I am indeed a candidate.

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Human rights groups accuse Kagame of ruling in a climate of fear, stifling dissent and freedom of expression.

In 2022, HRW’s Central Africa director, Lewis Mudge, told the BBC that “Rwanda is a country where it’s very dangerous to oppose the government, let alone to be a political opponent”.

The Rwandan government has denied involvement in the killings of prominent opposition figures while in exile.

In 2014, Kagame warned that those who betray the country will face “consequences”.

Jeune Afrique asked Kagame what the West would think about his decision to run again and his response was:

Personally, I no longer know what corresponds to Western values. What is democracy? Is the West dictating to others what they should do? But if they violate their own principles, how do we listen to them?

Seeking to transplant democracy to someone else is already a violation of democracy in itself. People are supposed to be independent and should be allowed to organise themselves as they wish.

Despite leading his then-rebel group, the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), which came to power in 1994, Kagame only became president in 2000 following the resignation of Pasteur Bizimungu.

In 2003, Rwanda adopted a new constitution giving the president a seven-year tenure renewable once.

But this was amended in a referendum in 2015 where 98% of the vote approved the changes.

The changes allowed the president to run for a third seven-year term and then serve two further five-year terms starting in 2024.

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26 Comments

mk · 1 year ago
arambira panyanga
Cashtalk · 1 year ago
He is one of Africa's most feared dictator, dictatorship and family dynasty are now reasons for many coups in Africa with patriotic military removing them
Anonymous · 1 year ago
org · 1 year ago
Shumba Murambwi mhondoro yenyika ino rambai muripi kusvika 2030 nekuti nyika inoitwa makatuni takatarisa nevana vadiki hatidi kusekererwa utwu twanana utwu😆😆😆😆😆😆😆 uyu musiri chaiwo
@ZANU PF HARDLINER · 1 year ago
dambudziko rauinaro nderekufunga kut une value ku zanu pf.honaka vane value kut vanopihwa...... housing loans top of the range vehicles PPU vanoswera varima sentry kudzimba dzavo ma farms avo kunoshanda pivot system vana vavo vanema Swiss accounts varimu Politburo asi vanosimbisa kut musangano kumasero just like pavanoti pasi nemabhunu asi vana vavo vane madegree emhiriyo vaine real estate mhiriyo. iwe nehu hardliner hwako unei?ini ndaitombozviti haa ndne 10ha of good land with irrigation but manje ndakazonzwa kut mwana wa former mukuru ane 21 farms. siyana nezve hu hardliner zvako izvo unenge wabvisa zvisina musoro mumusoro mako.
Gearbox · 1 year ago
Mathematically, Rwandan president can rule for 7 years * 3 terms= 21 years ---> normal 5 years * 2 years= 10 years Totally =31 years
CHAWABVUNZA · 1 year ago
This is the reason why coup de tats do not end in Africa. Once one becomes President or Prime Minister he does not want to leave office. He goes on to amend the Constitution. To examplify, in the case of the late Robert Gabriel Mugabe., he did not amend the Constitut6, but it was silent on terms one would be President. With his age, he must have resigned, but he clinged up until he was removed in a coup de tat. President Paul Kagami said he does not worry about what the Western countries say about him. This is my story and I am sticking to it. [ THE BUSH LAWYER4CCC ].
ZANU PF HARDLINER · 1 year ago
isu se party hatibvi papower hatipengi kuita opposition isu kana kugara kuma opposition benches mu parliament hazvibudi takaitora nehondo zvikanetsa toita futi nehondo
Jue Saidi · 1 year ago
yaaah ndabvuma ZVANGU Africa inenhamo uyu anonzi kagame ndorimwe dambudziko manje vanhu Ava avagute sei.
🏃‍♀️ Chi baby che ZANU 🌊 · 1 year ago
Uku ndokunonzi kutonga. Ma 90% plus ese ayo. Chawawana batisisa
Bvepfepfe · 1 year ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Maiweeeee 👏👏👏👏 Africa yakapenga, ana Kagame vakatapirirwa ne power even mukadzi wake ari kutoti Baba pliz ini I am enjoying being a Queen. Ana Yoweri Museveni vari kutoda kutofirapo in power. Kuzoti ED hahah achatoti i will be going for a 3rd term kkkkk. Power zvainoita. That's why Chamisa is my President coz he only wants one term just like Mandela
NATO · 1 year ago
ED will not serve 3rd term bro because so far zvakanaka havana ⅔ muparliament an amendment bill will require both parties to agree😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
Warsaw pact · 1 year ago
the two thirds will be achieved by any means necessary.remember the liberation struggle was not a stroll in the park
Bvepfepfe · 1 year ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 3rd term for ED can come coz he wants to arrest several CCC MPs. So that the Parliament shrinks and Zanu will dominate. I hope je doesn't achieve that
stubborn dictator · 1 year ago
Shumba Murambwi mhondoro yenyika ino rambai muripi kusvika 2030 nekuti nyika inoitwa makatuni takatarisa nevana vadiki hatidi kusekererwa utwu twanana utwu
Stubborn Gentile · 1 year ago
Ambuya voice yenyu iripasi, murikuti chi? Nyatso taura Gogasi
cde · 1 year ago
**** yake
Stubbon Gentile · 1 year ago
Another troublesome rascal 😎
· 1 year ago
Saka kusvika 2034 anenge achingotonga zvidzoyi zvake Africa i**** ye mbwa chaiyo
Anonymous · 1 year ago
Leave him alone. He's quite good. Democracy is not a one-size-fits all.
CC · 1 year ago
😂😂😂😂 astonished baffled
👁️👁️ · 1 year ago
@Warsaw Pact is writing of a liberation war yet this country's independence was negotiated at Lancaster House. and we voted to elect a leader of our choice among Nkomo, Muzorewa, Sithole, Smith and Mugabe. Musatinyepera kuti nyika yakauya ne Hondo. All the parties were forced to negotiate a settlement. Smith was prepared for a long war but John Vorster threatened to close the south African boarder while at the same time Samora Michel and Kenneth Kaunda threatened to close rear base of Zanu and ZAPU respectively.
@Vhedza · 1 year ago
I think you should explain further what the people of Zimbabwe were doing in those neighbouring countries for Kaunda to warrant their expulsion?

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