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 | 2-3 September 2018 |
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. [2]
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; [3] of the remainder, two are appointed by the National Youth Council, and one by the Federation of the Associations of the Disabled.[ citation needed]
Deputies elected to serve from 2018 to 2023 are as follows: [4]
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