KIGALI - Barely a week after it was permitted to operate by the Cabinet, the new PS Imberakuri has announced it will be fielding a candidate in next year’s Presidential polls. Party President and founder Bernard Ntaganda told The New Times that this week’s approval of his political party was good news and the party would start immediately preparations for presidential polls of next year. “Our political party must present a candidate in the 2010 Presidential race,” Ntaganda told The New Times Early this year Cabinet had ruled not to allow the registration of the party, saying it had not fulfilled all the conditions, including a requirement of 30 percent of women representation. Its acronym was also similar to one of the health organisation, Population Service International (PSI). “Politics is dynamic. Maybe it wasn’t our time yet, but thank God it is finally approved,” he said Ntaganda who formed PS Imberakuri after breaking away from the Social Democratic Party (PSD) strongly refuted recent accusations that his party may be harbouring discriminatory ideas, saying it would never happen, neither to him nor to the political party he leads. In a recent media conference called by President Paul Kagame, a local journalist revealed that he obtained information from secret meetings held by PS Imberakuri that they are ‘coming to work for the majority.’ Though the information stunned the audience at the conference, President Kagame did not spend long on the issue but preferred to immediately direct it to officials present to review that information. Ends
