{"id":1146212,"date":"2022-07-10T19:40:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T19:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/10\/paul-kagame-to-seek-fourth-term-as-president\/"},"modified":"2022-07-10T19:40:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T19:40:44","slug":"paul-kagame-to-seek-fourth-term-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/10\/paul-kagame-to-seek-fourth-term-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kagame To Seek Fourth Term As President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rwanda\u2019s leader, who has been in power for two decades, has said he would consider remaining in office for another 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kagame told a French TV channel he would stand for President again at the next election in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015 he changed the constitution, allowing him to stay until 2034.<\/p>\n<p>In the last presidential election five years ago, official figures showed he won 99% of the vote, which many outside the country dismissed as a sham.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he would seek re-election, Mr. Kagame, who is 64, said: \u201cI would consider running for another 20 years. I have no problem with that. Elections are about people choosing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch\u2019s Central Africa Director Lewis Mudge told the BBC \u201cwhat comes as a surprise is that some people are indeed surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda\u2019s leader, who has been in power for two decades, has said he would consider remaining in office for another 20 years. Paul Kagame told a French TV channel he would stand for President again at the next election in 2024. In 2015 he changed the constitution, allowing him to stay until 2034. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1146214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[8019,15934,3014,275,2514,4722],"class_list":["post-1146212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-fourth","tag-kagame","tag-paul","tag-president","tag-seek","tag-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}