# Transitional National Assembly elects Kagame president

Date: 2000

## The fact

On 24 March 2000 the Transitional [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) elected [Paul Kagame](/people/paul-kagame) president. He had been Vice-President and Minister of Defence since July 1994.

## Context

The RPF took Kigali in July 1994. He does not write a 1994 death census here.

July 1994 VP/MoD; 24 March 2000 presidency. Tenure start, not a childhood bio. Keep Transitional National Assembly elects Kagame president on 2000-03-24 separate from neighbouring M23, 2773, ballot, and mapping-report instruments.

The president of Rwanda is head of state and commander-in-chief of the RDF. He can decree, run a 99 percent ballot, and open or close a cross-border file. He does not write UNSC resolutions, does not sit as a Johannesburg inquest magistrate, and does not author a unique DRC civilian death total invented here.

## Evidence and sources

Government of Rwanda carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is electoral integrity of a closed post-war vertical: a completed assembly election, not a competitive multi-party contest as ODIHR would later define one.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Kagame became president on 24 March 2000 after a transitional assembly vote.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He accepted. He had already commanded the RDF as VP/MoD.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Transitional National Assembly elects Kagame president, not a later speech about Transitional National Assembly elects Kagame president.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Transitional National Assembly elects Kagame president on 2000-03-24 is not a licence to treat every later Government of Rwanda communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Transitional National Assembly elects Kagame president into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The assembly elected him. He accepted. He had already commanded the RDF as VP/MoD. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Paul Kagame: https://factrail.ai/people/paul-kagame

## Drivers

- Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rwanda-kagame-idUSTRE52O0Y20000324
- https://www.gov.rw/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/rw-kagame-president-2000