Chamber of Deputies (Rwanda)
Appearance
Chamber of Deputies Umutwe w'Abadepite Chambre des Députés | |
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Type | |
Type | of the Parliament of Rwanda |
Leadership | |
Structure | |
Seats | 80 |
Political groups | RPF Coalition (41)
Opposition (13)
Others (27)
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Elections | |
Closed party list (53 seats) and indirect election (27 seats) | |
Last election | 15 July 2024 |
Meeting place | |
Kigali | |
Website | |
www |
The Chamber of Deputies (Kinyarwanda: Umutwe w'Abadepite; French: Chambre des Députés) is the lower house of the bicameral national legislature of Rwanda. It was created under the new Constitution adopted by referendum in 2003.[1]
Composition
[edit]The Chamber is made up of 80 deputies. Of these, 53 are elected for five-years term by a closed party list and 24 seats are reserved for women who are elected by provincial councils;[2] of the remainder, two are appointed by the National Youth Council, and one by the Federation of the Associations of the Disabled.[citation needed]
Election results
[edit]Deputies elected to serve from 2018 to 2023 are as follows:[3]
See also
[edit]- List of speakers of the Chamber of Deputies of Rwanda
- Senate of Rwanda, the upper house of the legislature
References
[edit]- ^ "Chamber of Deputies". www.parliament.gov.rw. Archived from the original on 2013-10-04.
- ^ "IPU PARLINE database: RWANDA (Chambre des Députés), Electoral system". Retrieved 2024-03-20.
- ^ "MPs Profile 2018–2023". Archived from the original on 2020-06-16. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
External links
[edit]- Chamber of Deputies Archived 2018-02-19 at the Wayback Machine