President Pierre Nkurunziza has suffered a major setback after a revised constitution he was pushing was defeated in a close parliamentary vote. PHOTO | FILE
Burundi’s parliament failed Friday to adopt the government’s highly controversial measures to revise the constitution, which could have threatened a delicate ethnic balance in a nation still healing from decades of conflict.
Lawmakers blocked the changes by a single vote, parliamentary speaker Pie Ntavyohanyuma said, adding that the “draft revision of the constitution is therefore rejected”.
