Supporters of the Social Democratic Party, better known by its French acronym as PSD, spent Friday afternoon in Cyanika Sector of Southern Province’s Nyamagabe District wooing local voters to support its candidates in the September 16 parliamentary elections.

Juvenal Nkusi, one of the party’s candidates, told supporters who had gathered for the rally that it was important to vote for PSD candidates to give the party a chance to execute its political agenda.

Party officials say that PSD will champion development and programmes that advance eradication of poverty, access to healthcare services, and socio-economic transformation.

"We will honour our pledges and promises,” Nkusi said, exhorting supporters to vote for the party in the forthcoming elections.

Highlighting the party’s achievements over the past years, Nkusi noted that PSD started championing for social equity and development well before the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

He cited decentralisation, abolition of death penalty and citizens’ rights to land ownership as some of the policies that PSD started campaigning for since 1991.

Nkusi also said that his party played a big role in the introduction and execution of the health insurance scheme, better known as Mutuelle de Santé.

PSD emerged second after an RPF-led coalition in the 2008 parliamentary elections, earning 13 per cent of the vote and subsequently securing seven seats in the House.