Assembleia da República (Mozambique)

**Assembleia da República de Moçambique**
Basic data
Seat:	Maputo
Legislative period :	5 years
MPs:	250
Current legislative period
Last choice:	15th October 2014
Chair:	Verónica Macamo
	Website
	www.parlamento.mz

The Assembleia da República (Eng. "Assembly of the Republic") has been the one-chamber parliament of the Southeast African Republic of Mozambique since the first free elections in 1994 . Between the sham elections of 1977 , two years after the country gained independence from Portugal, and 1994, the official name of the Mozambican parliament was the National People's Assembly ( Assembleia Nacional Popular ).

The first president of the People's Assembly was Samora Machel , and Verónica Macamo has been president since 2010 .

Composition of the assembly

Distribution of seats in the Assembly of the Republic after the 2014 election:

FRELIMO (144)

RENAMO (89)

MDM (17)

The Assembly of the Republic currently has 250 members. Since the last elections in 2014, 144 members of the ruling party Frente da Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO), 89 members of the country's largest opposition party, Resistência Nacional Moçambicana (RENAMO) and 17 members of the Movimento Democrático de Moçambique (MDM) have been represented in it. At least 5% of the votes must be won nationwide in order to win seats as a party ( five percent hurdle ).

Of the 250 members, 99 are female.

Committees

Parliament has set up ten standing committees ( Comissões Parlamentares ) for further parliamentary work, nine of which are departmental. According to the Parliament's rules of procedure (“Regimento da Assembleia da República”), a committee consists of at least five and no more than 15 members, who are appointed by the political groups in plenary.

Main Committee ( Comissão Permanente)
Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Human Rights and Justice ( Comissão dos Assuntos Constitucionais, Direitos Humanos e de Legalidade)
Budget Committee (Comissão do Plano e orçamento)
Committee on Social, Gender, Technology and Media ( Comissão dos Assuntos Sociais, do Género e Tecnologias e Comunicação Social)
Public and Local Administration Committee ( Comissão da Administração Públicae Poder Local)
Agriculture, Economy and Environment Committee ( Comissão de Agricultura, Economia e Ambiente)
Defense, Security and Public Order Committee ( Defesa, Segurança e Ordem Pública )
Committee on International Relations, Cooperation and Communities ( Comissão das Relações Internacionais, Cooperação e Comunidades)
Committee on Petitions ( Comissão de Petições, Queixas e Reclamações )
Parliamentary Ethics Committee ( Comissão de Ética Parlamentar )

Parliament building

Assembly hall of the Assembleia da República

The parliament has its seat in Maputo . The building was financed by the People's Republic of China .

Web links

Official website (port.)
Page at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (engl.)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Mozambique (Assembly of the Republic) text, full . In: IPU PARLINE database . Retrieved July 19, 2016.
↑ Comissões Parlamentares. (No longer available online.) Assembleia da República, 2014, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved March 15, 2015 (Portuguese).
^ Mozambique . In: places-of-power.org - A Wiki on National Parliament Buildings Worldwide . Retrieved July 19, 2016.

-25.95928 32.56057Coordinates: 25 ° 57 ′ 33.4 ″ S , 32 ° 33 ′ 38.1 ″ E

[ipu-1] Mozambique (Assembly of the Republic) text, full . In: IPU PARLINE database . Retrieved July 19, 2016.

[2] Comissões Parlamentares. (No longer available online.) Assembleia da República, 2014, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved March 15, 2015 (Portuguese).

[3] Mozambique . In: places-of-power.org - A Wiki on National Parliament Buildings Worldwide . Retrieved July 19, 2016.