04-22-2020 ■ The National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI has met this April 21, all stakeholders involved in the elections starting this May 20 to discuss the electoral process. Participants have raised concerns related to electoral campaign which is about to get started. Annociate Niyonkuru, Deputy Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission (...)

03-11-2020 ■ Out of 10 presidential candidacy files, four don’t meet the required conditions. The rejected candidates say they will appeal to the Constitutional Court. They are Jacques Bigirimana, presidential candidate for FNL party, Anicet Niyonkuru for CDP party, Valentin Kavakure for FPN-Imboneza party and former President Domitien Ndayizeye for Kira (...)

02-19-2020 ■ At least seventeen political parties, one coalition and nine independent candidates for this year’s elections have participated in the draw for the serial numbers of the badges to be put on the ballot paper for the 2020 elections this February 18. Pierre Claver Kazihise, Chairman of the National Independent (...)

02-09-2020 ■ The Independent National Electoral Commission held on 7 February a meeting with representatives of political parties as well as independents who will participate in the upcoming elections scheduled for May 2020. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the application guidelines for candidates. All politicians have raised the (...)

01-09-2020 ■ Four Burundian Ministers visited this 8 January 2020 the data processing center of the Independent National Electoral Commission [CENI] to inquire about the progress of the activities of inputting voters who were registered during the partial voters’registration campaign organized from 9 to 12 December, 2019. This voters’ registration campaign (...)

12-12-2019 ■ “More than 36,000 out of 100,000 expected people have been registered since the beginning of the ongoing partial voters’ registration process throughout the country,” said Pierre Claver Kazihise, Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) at a press conference held this 11 December. The process of registering voters (...)

11-29-2019 ■ Pierre Claver Kazihise, Chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI has said judicial officials are key partners in punishing electoral infringements. “Judicial officials must know the content of the electoral code to impose sanctions related to the election- based conflicts,” said Kazihise. It was during a workshop on electoral (...)

10-31-2019 ■ Léonce Ngendakumana, Deputy Chairman of Sahwanya FRODEBU party has said the political intolerance is still observed in some areas of the country. “Opposition party offices continue to be destroyed and the political space is gradually becoming more restricted,” he says, adding that their members are intimidated. It was in (...)

09-20-2019 ■ The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) published on 19 September a provisional list of members of the Provincial Electoral Commission (CEPI) in Gitega province of central Burundi. Some leaders of political parties complain that they are not represented. They accuse the national electoral commission of being partial. CEPI in (...)

08-21-2019 ■ In a meeting with governors and leaders of political parties held on August 20th, The National Independent Electoral Commission-CENI has said people who will be members of provincial and communal electoral commissions should not work on behalf of their political parties. Pierre Claver Kazihise, Chairman of the National Independent (...)