{"id":4535,"date":"2015-12-18T12:24:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T12:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/_test_&#038;web\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2017-07-16T14:30:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T14:30:45","slug":"president-kagame-casts-vote-in-referendum-on-constitutional-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=4535","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame casts vote in referendum on constitutional amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kigali, 18 December 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Kagame and First Lady Jeanette Kagame today joined millions of Rwandans in voting during a nationwide referendum exercise on constitutional amendment in Rugunga sector, Nyarugenge District.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to local, regional and international press after casting his vote, President Kagame stated that the process was about the people of Rwanda expressing their wishes and exercising their rights.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is about Rwandans. They hold their future in their hands.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The referendum is the culmination of countrywide petitions to Parliament to have the Constitution reviewed to lift term limits to allow President Kagame more time to run the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali, 18 December 2015 President Kagame and First Lady Jeanette Kagame today joined millions of Rwandans in voting during a nationwide referendum exercise on constitutional amendment in Rugunga sector, Nyarugenge District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7876,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/7876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}