On 25 April 2015, the CNDD-FDD party Congress designated President Pierre Nkurunziza as its candidate for the presidential election. As the latter had already been elected twice, in 2005 and 2010, this candidacy constituted a violation of both the Arusha Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in Burundi signed in Arusha, Tanzania on 28 August 2000 and the Constitution of the Republic of Burundi of 18 March 2005. These two fundamental legal instruments prohibited the President from running for more than two terms. Following this candidacy, a protest movement against this controversial third term emerged and Burundian women played a significant role in it despite the risks and significant challenges they had to face