{"id":965770,"date":"2024-07-15T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T09:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965770"},"modified":"2024-07-15T09:08:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T09:08:12","slug":"rwandans-vote-in-election-expected-to-extend-kagames-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/rwandans-vote-in-election-expected-to-extend-kagames-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandans vote in election expected to extend Kagame&#8217;s rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Rwanda lined up at polling stations today to elect their next President, with 66-year-old incumbent Paul Kagame, who has ruled the central African country for nearly a quarter of a century, expected to cruise to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame has won more than 93% of the vote at each of the three previous elections.<\/p>\n<p>Eight candidates had applied to run against him, but only two were retained in the final list validated by the electoral commission.<\/p>\n<p>The others, including Kagame&#8217;s most vocal critics, were barred for various reasons that included prior criminal convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame won nearly 99% of the vote in the 2017 poll, which followed a constitutional change removing term limits that would have prevented him from standing again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Kagame who has ruled for nearly a quarter of a century is expected to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":965771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}