National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Basic data
Seat: Kinshasa
Legislative period : 5 years
MPs: 500
Current legislative period
Last choice: December 30, 2018
Chair: President, Jeanine Mabunda, FCC
Website
www.assemblee-nationale.cd

The National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Swahili Wabunge wa Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Congo , French Assemblée nationale de la République démocratique du Congo ) is the lower house in the bicameral system of the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

500 members are elected to the National Assembly for five years each. This took place after the Second Congo War in the 2006 elections and in the 2011 elections . The following election was postponed several times and took place in December 2018 .

The National Assembly has had its seat in Kinshasa since 1997 in the People's Palace ( Palais du peuple ), which was built from 1975.

  • The People's Palace, seat of the National Assembly and Senate, 2009

  • National Assembly in September 2010

In 2018, Allianz FCC from former President Joseph Kabila received over 300 of the then 485 seats in a controversial election . In a later list, which included post-election results from March 2019, the distribution of seats by block is given as follows: FCC 341, Lamuka 112, Cap pour le changement 47.

In June 2019, following a court decision, Lamuka was stripped of 21 parliamentary seats and two senatorial seats . All 23 seats were slammed to the FCC.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Constitutional Article 103, CONSTITUTION DE LA REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ A b Article 115 of the electoral law, loi electorale 2011 de la République démocratique du Congo
  3. ↑ Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban: DRC opposition lose 23 seats to Kabila's coalition: Apex court rebuked. africanews.com, June 14, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019
  4. ↑ Historique du siège de l'Assemblée Nationale: Le Palais du Peuple ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Palais du Peuple - Wikinshasa. In: www.wikinshasa.org. Retrieved October 21, 2015 .
  6. ↑ The election results at electionguide.org (English), accessed on June 3, 2019
  7. ↑ Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban: DRC opposition lose 23 seats to Kabila's coalition: Apex court rebuked. africanews.com, June 14, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019

Coordinates: 4 ° 19 ′ 55.9 ″  S , 15 ° 18 ′ 11.2 ″  E