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President
Kagame won elections in 2003 and 2010 (Photo: Reuters)
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Rwanda's Supreme Court
has ruled in favour of changing the constitution and dismissed the case brought
by the opposition Green Party protesting at moves to allow President Paul
Kagame to run for a third seven-year term.
"The
petition... has no basis and is hereby dismissed," the AFP news agency
quotes Chief Justice Sam Rugege as saying.
MPs
agreed to change the constitution in July and to hold a national referendum on
the issue.
"Denying the free will
of the people to choose how they are governed is not democratic, rather it is
the opposite," the judge said
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