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Below is a list of members of the 8th National Assembly of Namibia. They were selected by their parties based on the results of the 2024 Namibian general election. This National Assembly will be inaugurated on 20 March 2025. Like each of the previous National Assemblies, it is led by the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO). The 8th ...
On 3 December 2024, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of the ruling SWAPO party was declared the winner of the election. She is set to become Namibia's first female president. The National Assembly elections saw SWAPO reduced to 51 seats, a bare majority of three. It was SWAPO's weakest showing since Namibia's independence in 1990.
Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power. In Namibian politics, ethnicity plays a significant role in party affiliation and voting behaviour. Some parties are dominated by single ethnic groups; SWAPO itself, its government, and administration, is pre-dominantly Ovambo. [1]
Below is a list of members of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia, which became the National Assembly of Namibia upon independence in March 1990. Individual members were selected by political parties voted for in the 1989 election, the first democratic, multi-racial and universal franchise elections in Namibian history.
The party president is the top position of SWAPO; in 2012 this was held by Namibia's former president Pohamba. The vice-president was Namibia's former president Hage Geingob , who was elected to that position in 2007 and reconfirmed at the SWAPO congress in December 2012, until his death on 4 February 2024.
Below is a list of members of the 7th National Assembly of Namibia. [1] They were selected by their parties based on the results of the 2019 parliamentary election. This National Assembly was inaugurated on 20 March 2020. [2] Like each of the previous National Assemblies, it is led by the South West Africa People's Organization. The 7th ...
The National Assembly is the lower chamber of Namibia's bicameral Parliament.Its laws must be approved by the National Council, the upper house.Since 2014, it has a total of 104 members. 96 members are directly elected through a system of closed list proportional representation and serve five-year terms. [2]
Nandi-Ndaitwah sits both on SWAPO's central committee and the politburo. She is also the party's secretary for information and mobilisation and as such, is one of SWAPO's main spokespeople. [9] [13] In March 2023, President Geingob named Dr Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as SWAPO's presidential candidate in the 2024 Namibian general election. [14]