Parliament (Sierra Leone)

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Parliament (Sierra Leone)
logo Parliament building
logo Parliament building
Basic data
Seat: Tower Hill in Freetown
Legislative period : 5 years
MPs: 132 + 14
Current legislative period
Chair: Abass Chernor Bundu
Distribution of seats: SLPP : 58
APC : 57
C4C : 8
NGC : 4
Independents: 4 Vacant
seats: 2
Chiefs: 14
Website
www.parliament.gov.sl

The Parliament of Sierra Leone ( English Parliament of Sierra Leone ) is the parliament in the unicameral system of the West African state of Sierra Leone . It is seldom referred to as the " House of Representatives ".

The Parliament of Sierra Leone has 146 members, 132 of whom are directly elected for five years in 132 constituencies . 14 additional seats are reserved for tribal chiefs ( Paramount Chiefs ) through indirect election. Citizens aged 18 and over are entitled to vote.

Current Parliament (since 2018)

The current parliament met for the first time on May 4, 2018. Speaker ( President of Parliament ) became Abass Chernor Bundu .

At the end of May 2019, ten seats of the opposition party APC were stripped from the court for violations of the law in the 2018 elections. Nine went directly to the second strongest candidate of the SLPP. The tenth seat should be awarded in a by-election on August 24, 2019. The result of the by-election, however, was canceled by the electoral commission after violent clashes broke out in which election papers were also destroyed. Both parties claim the election victory for themselves and blame the other party for the riots.

elections

The last parliamentary elections took place in March 2018. The All People's Congress (APC) received 68 seats, the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) 49 seats. The remaining seats went to the Coalition for Change Party (8 seats), the National Grand Coalition Party (4 seats) and Independent Candidates (3 seats).

Parliament building

Above right the parliament building, in the foreground the State House (around 1980)
Conference room with coat of arms and speaker's seat (2007)

The parliament building is located in the capital Freetown on Tower Hill . The bastion of Fort Thornton , a national monument of Sierra Leone , had been on Tower Hill since 1792 .

The parliament building was designed by Israeli architects in the style of brutalism and completed in 1961 for the declaration of independence. In 2019 it is to be renovated for four months, with the boardroom temporarily having to move. [outdated]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sierra Leone parliament approves president Bio's ministers. Sierra Leone Telegraph, May 5, 2018.
  2. ^ Clashes, arrests after Sierra Leone court unseats 10 opposition MPs. TRT World, May 31, 2019.
  3. ^ Abdul Rashid Thomas: SLPP claims by election victory as opposition APC protests cancellation of results. The Sierra Leone Telegraph, August 27, 2019, accessed September 1, 2019 .
  4. ^ Sierra Leone's ruling APC secures parliamentary majority with 63 seats. African News, March 20, 2018.
  5. ^ Rama Musa: The Al-Aqsa of Africa - Sierra Leone's Israeli-Built Parliament Building and the Jewish State's Engagement in Africa . January 3, 2013. Accessed March 30, 2015.
  6. ↑ PARLIAMENT CONNECTS - A GUIDE TO ACCESSING SIERRA LEONE'S HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT ( Memento of the original of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. parliament.gov.sl, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.parliament.gov.sl
  7. ↑ Sierra Leone Parliament to relocate. The Patriotic Vanguard, January 11, 2019.

Coordinates: 8 ° 28 '50 "  N , 13 ° 13' 59"  W.