{"id":13190,"date":"2018-08-25T03:56:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T03:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/jean-pierre-bemba-cannot-run-for-drc-president\/20"},"modified":"2018-08-25T03:56:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T03:56:20","slug":"jean-pierre-bemba-cannot-run-for-drc-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=13190","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Pierre Bemba &#8216;cannot run for DRC president&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article-ext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Congolese opponent Jean-Pierre Bemba (C), speaks to the press after applying to be a candidate for next presidential elections of December 23\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jean-pierre-bemba-cannot-run-for-drc-president-5b80d3640c1b3.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/> Image copyright AFP <\/p>\n<p>Former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba can&#8217;t run to be the next president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country&#8217;s electoral commission mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bemba used to be considered one of six might-be applicants deemed ineligible following hours of deliberation.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-rise up leader had a warfare crimes conviction overturned in June.<\/p>\n<p>However, the fee said Mr Bemba used to be excluded on account of his conviction by way of the Global Criminal Courtroom (ICC) for bribing witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bemba, who again to the DR Congo at the get started of August after 11 years spent in exile or jail, is currently appealing towards the ICC conviction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dr-congo-ex-warlord-jean-pierre-bemba-welcomed-home-5b61b6103e7dc.jpg\"> Symbol copyright Getty Photographs A well-connected businessman and the son of outstanding Congolese businessman Bemba Saolona 1998: Helped by means of Uganda to shape MLC revolt staff in Democratic Republic of Congo 2003: Turns Into vice-president beneath peace deal 2006: Loses run-off election to President Joseph Kabila but will get so much votes in western DR Congo, together with Kinshasa 2007: Flees to Belgium after clashes in Kinshasa 2008: Arrested in Brussels and passed over to ICC 2010: Trial starts 2016: Discovered guilty of struggle crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity 2018: Conviction overturned on appeal<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFP Former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba can&#8217;t run to be the next president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country&#8217;s electoral commission mentioned. Mr Bemba used to be considered one of six might-be applicants deemed ineligible following hours of deliberation. The ex-rise up leader had a warfare crimes conviction overturned in June. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1056,6029,6072,1447,658],"class_list":["post-13190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","tag-africa","tag-democratic-republic-of-the-congo","tag-international-criminal-justice","tag-law","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}