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so we've just arrived at a campaign
rally for president corena it's one of
the last he'll be doing before the
election and we're actually quite close
to where the military fighting took
place about a week ago Ugandan president
y mueni was just in town for a few days
he was trying to help mediate the
conflict but having served 29 years as
president himself he's not really a fan
of presidential term limits with him
leaving one of the dissent generals has
issued a threat saying that these
negotiations fail the country beruni
will be plunged into war on the way here
there was tons of military and banuri
lighing the roads sort of on guard and
as you can see around here there's lots
of military here as well they're on high
alert despite all the protests the
president actually does have a
substantial support base especially in
the north of the country and there's
people that think that prior to all
these events if he was allowed to run he
actually would have won a popular
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so as you can see they're taking no
risks here the president and his uh
security detail are arriving right
now the uh the good times music is
blasting and uh I'm going to get out of
the
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what's the feeling right now among your
party as the elections get closer so we
are feeling happy to see that we have so
many members of the CDD who come here uh
to participate in this meeting the
meeting of the party which worked so
much for the country there's been a lot
of criticism of the president from the
International Community from the UN that
are questioning this election how do you
respond to those allegations what you
can see is that a lot of population 80%
perh house who going to elect to elect
to vote the president how the the the
the East African Community the UN can
enter in this afas of Bundi uh country
we know that some members of the
opposition uh that have fled the country
some members of your own party who have
fled the country they form what they
call transitional government in Exile
what do you make of this situation you
see how they they they in Exile then it
is to because they are fear they are
frightened not to get know some voters
who don't to to vote because this party
have a lot of members this country all
the provinces all the communes all the
hills you can you can find members of
the C FD party this transitional Council
of some of the leaders that I formed
last night that said that there are
going to be the new governments you
don't think that there's any Merit to
this you don't think that that uh it has
any value no this coun I'm to tell him
to come back to come this country
because problem even they are out even
they can ask the the leaders of our
leaders our good leaders of the country
they can back can come back without any
problem can you tell us why you're
voting for the cndd FDD why you support
them
wait wait wait why can't we talk to him
why he saying why he
supp he saying
it's kind of interesting we came here uh
with the hope of interviewing a lot of
regular people asking them why they
support the ruling party um and I fixer
kept telling us it wasn't possible they
wouldn't talk without permission they uh
they would be stopped and we didn't
believe him and we stopped one man to
ask him literally why he supports the
party and inuri member came over and
told him not to talk to us I don't know
probably not the best method if you want
people to think that your party is
supported
despite all the claims of Unity by the
cndd FDD even high ranking members who
have disagreed with the president have
had to flee for their lives onim induana
has been with the party since it formed
in the bush during the Civil War and is
the former spokesman after signing a
letter with other party members calling
for president Noor ranza not to run for
a third term he had to flee to
Randa so you had a very high role in the
government right now in the ruling party
in uh in Burundi you left that role can
you tell us what happened and why you
had to
leave
for position so after speaking out
against the president you were you were
afraid for your
life
but the orders the the killings
everything went went right from the
top so what do you see happening in the
next few weeks in
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