The outgoing district mayors of Musanze, Rusizi, Rutsiro and Ngororero did not make it among the general councilors during the elections that took place on Tuesday November 16.<\/p>\n
At least 17 mayors had run during the current elections seeking a second term.<\/p>\n
Those who failed to make it back are; Jeannine Nuwumuremyi in Musanze District, Rusizi\u2019s Ephreim Kayumba, Godefroid Ndayambaje who was in Ngororero District and Emerance Ayinkamiye from Rutsiro District.<\/p>\n
Being at the head of Musanze district, Niwumuremyi was among the shortest serving mayors in the previous mandate, but was beaten in yesterday\u2019s local elections with 82 votes though her both deputies managed to be re-elected.<\/p>\n
Reports indicate that she started campaigning late, but she was also considered as \u2018media unfriendly\u2019 by some local journalists.<\/p>\n
She replaced Jean-Damasc\u00e8ne Habyarimana, who had been shown the exit door by the advisory council with his two deputies.<\/p>\n
Habyarimana had been facing a litany of issues, including suspected criminal offences during a mayoral exit in early 2019, nicknamed.<\/p>\n
Ephreim Kayumba who lost in Rusizi District had been at the head of the district for the last three years. He replaced Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Harerimana who had started the leadership term in 2016.<\/p>\n
During the elections on Tuesday, he only managed to garner 50 votes out of 391 members of the Electoral College.<\/p>\n
Two mayors who had been able to serve their full term in Western Province, were not successful in these elections.<\/p>\n
They are Rutsiro\u2019s Em\u00e9rence Ayinkamiye and Godefroid Ndayambaje of Ngororero District.<\/p>\n
During this year\u2019s elections at the councilors’ level, both of them got 41 votes from their respective districts (TNT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The outgoing district mayors of Musanze, Rusizi, Rutsiro and Ngororero did not make it among the general councilors during the elections that took place on Tuesday November 16. At least 17 mayors had run during the current elections seeking a second term. Those who failed to make it back are; Jeannine Nuwumuremyi in Musanze District, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-en"],"yoast_head":"\n