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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 ...
Some parties are dominated by single ethnic groups; SWAPO itself, its government, and administration, ... This page was last edited on 22 December 2024, ...
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.
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]
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 ...
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 Parliament of Namibia is the national legislature of Namibia. It is a bicameral legislature and, thus, consists of two houses: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the National Council ( upper house ) and the National Assembly ( lower house ).
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. The third highest position in SWAPO is the secretary-general, a position held in December 2012 by Nangolo Mbumba .