Évariste Ndayishimiye is a Burundi politician who is the President-elect of Burundi; he will assume office in August 2020. He has also been the Secretary General of the National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD–FDD) since August 2016 and served as the Minister of the Interior and Public Security under former President Pierre Nkurunziza from 2006 to 2007.[1] Politically, Ndayishimiye supports the policies of his former key ally Pierre Nkurunziza, who served as the 9th President from August 2005 to his death in June 2020. Ndayishimiye was then nominated by his party as its presidential candidate in the 2020 Burundian general election, which he won in the first round.