Five UPRONA MPs replaced

Tatien Sibomana, spokesman of UPRONA “We agreed that no UPRONA member would join the institutions that stemmed from the elections that we contested.”

Five out of eight UPRONA MPs elected from Amizero y’Abarundi coalition have been replaced as they have never sat in the National Assembly since they were elected in 2015.

According to Tatien Sibomana, the spokesman of UPRONA, the wing which is not officially recognized by Burundi government, they keep their decision against joining the government and the institutions that resulted from the elections he describes as unfair. “We agreed that no UPRONA member would join the institutions that stemmed from the elections that we contested. Anyone who will go against the principles of the party will be sanctioned”, said Sibomana.

These new members of parliament are Ladislas Nindereye Ferdinand Havyarimana, Jean Claude Kwizera, Olive Nindamutsa and Emmanuel Nkunzimana.

The chairman of the national assembly mentioned in the letters addressed to the new members that he has complied with the 25 March 2015 Constitutional Court judgment.

The Constitutional Court states that MPs who do not sit in n parliament as regularly as required by the law underlying the National Assembly must be replaced.