Chamber of Deputies (Rwanda)
{{Short description|Lower house of Rwanda Parliament}}
{{Infobox legislature
| name = Chamber of Deputies
| native_name = {{Lang|rw|Umutwe w'Abadepite}}
{{Lang|fr|Chambre des Députés}}
| legislature =
| coa_pic = Coat of arms of Rwanda.svg
| coa_res = 110px
| house_type = Lower House
| body = Parliament of Rwanda
| leader1_type = Speaker
| leader1 = Gertrude Kazarwa
| party1 = Liberal Party
| election1 = 14 August 2024
| members = 80
| structure1 = File:Chambre Rwanda 2018.svg
| structure1_res = 260px
| political_groups1 = {{Color box|#0087DC|border=darkgray}} RPF Coalition (41)
- Rwandan Patriotic Front (37)
- Centrist Democratic Party (1)
- Ideal Democratic Party (1)
- Party for Progress and Concord (1)
- Rwandan Socialist Party (1)
Opposition (13)
- {{Color box|#DC241F|border=darkgray}} Social Democratic Party (5)
- {{Color box|#C71585|border=darkgray}} Social Party Imberakuri (2)
- {{Color box|#008000|border=darkgray}} Liberal Party (4)
- {{Color box|#00FA9A|border=darkgray}} Democratic Green Party of Rwanda (2)
Others (27)
- {{nowrap|{{Color box|lightgray|border=darkgray}} Indirectly elected members (27)}}
| committees1 =
| joint_committees =
| voting_system1 = Closed party list (53 seats) and indirect election (27 seats)
| last_election1 = 15 July 2024
| session_room = An aerial view of new look of Rwanda Parliament Building in Kimihurura, Kigali on May 16, 2019. Emmanuel Kwizera.jpg
| session_res = 200px
| meeting_place = Kigali
| website = {{URL|http://www.parliament.gov.rw}}
| footnotes =
}}
{{Politics of Rwanda}}
The Chamber of Deputies ({{langx|rw|Umutwe w'Abadepite}}; {{langx|fr|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.{{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.gov.rw/chamber-of-deputies/chamber-of-deputies/ |title=Chamber of Deputies |website=www.parliament.gov.rw |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004055037/http://www.parliament.gov.rw/chamber-of-deputies/chamber-of-deputies |archive-date=2013-10-04}}
Composition
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;{{Cite web |title=IPU PARLINE database: RWANDA (Chambre des Députés), Electoral system |url=http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2265_B.htm |access-date=2024-03-20}} of the remainder, two are appointed by the National Youth Council, and one by the Federation of the Associations of the Disabled.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
Election results
{{main|Rwandan parliamentary election, 2018}}
Deputies elected to serve from 2018 to 2023 are as follows:{{Cite web |url=https://www.parliament.gov.rw/index.php?id=131 |title=MPs Profile 2018–2023 |access-date=2020-05-03 |archive-date=2020-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616234659/https://www.parliament.gov.rw/index.php?id=131 |url-status=dead }}
See also
- List of speakers of the Chamber of Deputies of Rwanda
- Senate of Rwanda, the upper house of the legislature
References
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External links
- [http://www.parliament.gov.rw/chamber-of-deputies/chamber-of-deputies/ Chamber of Deputies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219031112/http://www.parliament.gov.rw/chamber-of-deputies/chamber-of-deputies/ |date=2018-02-19 }}
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