Rwandan President Kagame accuses West of double standards on democracy

President Kagame’s comments came days after the country’s National Electoral Commission cleared him and two other candidates to run in the presidential election next month.

Mr Kagame is a candidate of the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF). His two challengers are Frank Habineza of the opposition Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, and Philippe Mpayimana, an independent candidate.

President Kagame pointed out that the political context of every country matter in politics, adding that lines of thinking are going to be different from one place to another, wondering whether the democracy being practiced in Rwanda is the opposite of the description of democracy.

“Some of these countries have strict rules, and they don’t want anybody to interfere in their politics, but they find it easy to get involved in other people’s politics. What sense does it make?”

” If interfering in other people’s affairs is wrong, what gives you the right to go and get involved in other people’s affairs … Some of them are leaders of their own countries in spite of their very low ratings. But that is democracy I’m told,” he added.

Rwandans will go to the polls to elect the president and members of parliament on July 15.