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National Assembly (Burundi)

Lower chamber of parliament in Burundi

Field	Value
name	National Assembly
native_name

coa_pic	Coat of arms of Burundi.svg
coa_res	150px
foundation
house_type	Lower house
body	Parliament of Burundi
leader1_type	President
leader1	Gelase Ndabirabe
party1	CNDD-FDD
election1	7 August 2020
members	100 directly elected, additional members co-opted to meet constitutional requirements
structure1	Burundi Assemblée nationale 2025.svg
structure1_res	300px
political_groups1
term_length	5 years
voting_system1	Closed list proportional representation with 2% electoral threshold
first_election1	[10 May 1965](1965-burundian-parliamentary-election)
last_election1	[5 June 2025](2025-burundian-parliamentary-election)
next_election1	July 2030
session_room	Dr.K.A.Paul addressing the Burundi Parliament in Africa, Burundi members of parliament , President and and speaker of the parliament.jpg
meeting_place	Kigobe Congress Center, Bujumbura
website

The National Assembly (Kirundi: * Inama nshingamateka*) is the lower chamber of Parliament in Burundi. It consists of 100 directly elected members (or deputies) and between 18 and 23 co-opted members who serve five-year terms.

Deputies are elected in 5 multi-member constituencies using a party-list proportional representation system in accordance with the D'Hondt method. Political parties and lists of independent candidates must receive over 2% of the vote nationally to gain representation in the National Assembly.

History

As a country that has been devastated by civil war and persistent ethnic violence since its independence in 1962, Burundi's new constitution (approved in a February 2005 [[Burundian constitutional referendum, 2005| referendum]]) requires that 60% of the deputies be from the Hutu ethnic group, while the remaining 40% come from the Tutsi ethnic group. In addition, three co-opted members represent the Twa ethnic group. Women must occupy at least 30% of the seats in the National Assembly.

Elections to the National Assembly took place on 4 July 2005. The National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) won 59 of the 100 seats filled through direct election. The Front for Democracy in Burundi (FRODEBU), who won a majority of seats in the previous election held in 1993, won 25 seats. The Union for National Progress (UPRONA) won 10, while the National Council for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD), a breakaway faction of the CNDD-FDD, won 4. The small, predominantly Tutsi Movement for the Rehabilitation of Citizens-Rurenzangemero (MRC-Rurenzangemero), won the remaining 2 seats. An additional 18 members were co-opted to meet the required ethnic and gender quotas.

Immaculée Nahayo, an ethnic Hutu member of the CNDD-FDD, was elected president of the National Assembly on 16 August 2005.

On 19 August 2005, the National Assembly and Senate Assembly (acting as an Electoral College) elected Pierre Nkurunziza president of the republic. He took office on 26 August 2005.

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