Leaders of opposition parties that formed two weeks ago the Alliance des D�mocrates pour le Changement (ADC) have called on their members not to go to the polling stations in the forthcoming presidential election scheduled for June 28 this year.
The call came on Tuesday evening after the leaders met their militants in Buyenzi suburb in Burundi's
capital Bujumbura in an office of the Union pour la Paix et le D�veloppement (UPD- ZIGAMIBANGA), the
most influential party in the area.
At the meeting, the leaders appealed to the members of the opposition not to report to polling stations
in the presidential elections.
"We have told our militants not to go and cast their ballots for presidential elections because the
communal ones held on May 24 were characterized by massive fraud and irregularities," said L �onard
Nyangoma, chairman of the Conseil National pour la D�fense de la D�mocratie (CNDD).
Police were on high alert on Tuesday evening but did not prevent them from holding the meeting.
Nyangoma is a former rebel leader and one of the six candidates for the presidential elections but he
pulled out of the electoral process early this month, demanding a new election and the resignation of members of the electoral commission for failing to organise a fair and transparent communal election.