Burundi: Electoral commission's proposal to postpone elections is rejected

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday rejected a proposal from Burundi's electoral commission to postpone the country's final round of elections by two months, a senior Ugandan government official told IRIN. The deadline for the next poll had been 22 April 2005. A senior official in the Ugandan government, who asked to remain anonymous, said that IEC officials had wanted the next poll to be delayed because they felt that laws required to organise voting more efficiently were not yet in place.