RWANDA: President already claiming win in August election

Rwanda’s president is already claiming victory in next month’s election. President Paul Kagame told supporters at his first campaign rally that the results of the vote were known in 2015, when more than 4 million Rwandans petitioned Parliament to change the constitution to allow him to run again. Kagame said his critics cannot change the […]

Rwanda’s president is already claiming victory in next month’s election.

President Paul Kagame told supporters at his first campaign rally that the results of the vote were known in 2015, when more than 4 million Rwandans petitioned Parliament to change the constitution to allow him to run again.

Kagame said his critics cannot change the will of the people. “You can choose not to hear the truth but you cannot deny what your eyes show you here today,” he said. “Pretending not to know the will expressed by the people during the referendum would be a lie, not democracy.”

The president is widely expected to win another term on August 4.