Rwanda opposition leader barred from standing against president

Diane Rwigara speaking to the media in Kigali in 2017. She posted on X: ‘Paul Kagame, why won’t you let me run?.’Diane Rwigara speaking to the media in Kigali in 2017. She posted on X: ‘Paul Kagame, why won’t you let me run?.’Diane Rwigara, the leader of the People Salvation Movement, unveiled her election bid in May and submitted her candidacy last week. But her name was missing from the provisional list of candidates announced by the electoral commission on Thursday.

“After all the time, work and effort I put in, I am very disappointed to hear I am not on the list of presidential candidates,” the 42-year-old, who was also disqualified from the 2017 election, said on X.The election commission said she had failed to provide a criminal record statement as required, and that she had not met the threshold of the requisite 600 supporting signatures from citizens.

A final candidate list is due on 14 June, a month before the presidential and parliamentary votes on 15 July. Rwigara is the daughter of the industrialist Assinapol Rwigara, a former signifcant donor to Kagame’s ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front party before he fell out with its leaders.In the run-up to this year’s vote, Rwandan courts had already rejected appeals from the prominent opposition figures Bernard Ntaganda and

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