Burundi's electoral crisis – back to power-sharing politics as usual?
本文分析布隆迪总统恩库伦齐扎寻求第三任期引发的选举危机，包括示威、暴力冲突、未遂政变及国际调解失败，揭示权力分享政治的困境。
RULING PARTY Conseil national pour la dfense de la dmocratie -Forces pour la dfense de la dmocratie (CNDD-FDD) designated incumbent President Pierre Nkurunziza as its candidate for the forthcoming presidential elections, despite the fact that he had already completed two terms in office. The announcement that Nkurunziza planned to take a third term triggered an unprecedented series of demonstrations in Bujumbura, Burundi's capital city. Two months later, the country experienced several weeks of violent confrontation between the police and primarily young urban protesters, a failed coup d'tat, and repeated delays of the elections. Around seventy people were killed in the pre-electoral violence and close to 100,000 people crossed the border, mostly to Rwanda and Tanzania. Despite international pressure and mediation, no genuine political dialogue between supporters and opponents of President Nkurunziza's third term took place.