8 March 2008
Bujummbura — The Batwa community is opposed to the appointment of the nine people to represent the Burundi in the legislative body of the East African Federation.
The Association of Batwa of Burundi, UNIPROBA, says that the parliament discriminated against them in its recent appointment of nine persons to the posts of representatives of Burundi in the parliament of the East African Federation.
This association says that the President of the Republic has promised that the Batwa community would be represented in this legislative. Initially, the parliament also promised that it will include the Batwa community among the representatives of Burundi in the region. Later on, the Batwa community blamed the MRC-Rurenzangemero for taking this post. MRC responded that the Batwa community has no member of the parliament that Burundians elected except those the electoral commission chose through cooption.
The election of the representatives of Burundi in the East African parliament remains at the centre of the issues shaking the national assembly as well as the splits that FRODEBU and Uprona are currently faced with. Uprona has contested the appointment Frédéric Ngenzebuhoro. The executive board of Uprona considers Frédéric Ngenzebuhoro as a usurper of post that would rightly come to Mr Aloys Rubuka.
Since the beginning of the blockage in early February 2007, opposition parties sought to put the election of the representatives of Burundi in the regional federation in the centre of the political bargaining. The ruling party however resisted although it gave the same offers to revive schisms in different parties in order to get backing for the replacement of Alice Nzomukunda from the direction of the national assembly.
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