On behalf of the Chairman of the coalition of independents “Amizero y’Abarundi’ Agathon Rwasa, five MPs from the parliamentary group of the coalition have filed complaints to the Constitutional Court against the provisional results of the constitutional referendum around 3:30 pm this 24 May.
Pierre Célestin Ndikumana, Chairman of the Parliamentary group of the coalition of independents says the coalition has made an appeal to the Constitutional Court requesting the latter to reject the provisional results of the referendum.
The Parliamentary group of MPs from the coalition of independents filed complaints to the Constitutional Court
“We are here to request the invalidation of the referendum results. Considering the situation that prevailed before the referendum and on the polling day as well as that after the referendum, what we are observing does not reassure,” he says.
Ndikumana says there are several arrests, intimidations and their political supervisors are often persecuted. He says more than 60 “Amizero y’Abarundi” followers have been arrested after the referendum among them 75% were the supervisors. “There are witnesses. If there is a hunt for witnesses, this means something wrong is going on”, he says. He, however, says the followers of the coalition are optimistic about the evidence presented to the court. “We will wait for the decision that the court will make”, he says.
On 21 May, the Independent National Electoral Commission published the provisional results of the constitutional referendum. The vote for the constitutional amendment won with 73. 26 % against 19. 34%. Out of 4,755, 216 registered voters throughout the country, 4,576 296 voted in the referendum i.e. 96.24% of the participation rate. The Constitutional Court has eight days to reject or validate the provisional referendum results.
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