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t. e. The National Assembly is the sole legislative body of Botswana 's unicameral Parliament, of which consists of the President and the National Assembly. [7] The House passes laws, provides ministers to form Cabinet, and supervises the work of government. It is also responsible for adopting the country's budgets.
11th Parliament of Botswana. This is a list of the members of the unicameral National Assembly of Botswana between 2014 and 2019. There were 63 seats in the assembly consisting of 57 MPs directly elected from constituencies, 4 specially elected MPs and 2 ex officio members; who were elected in the 2014 election. [1]
Parliament of Botswana is the supreme legislative authority. [3] The President of Botswana is Mokgweetsi Masisi, who assumed the Presidency on 1 April 2018. In October 2019, the 2019 general election was held which saw the return of the Botswana Democratic Party to the power with a majority of 19 seats in the 65 seat National Assembly.
Vacancy. According to the Constitution of Botswana, a seat will become vacant if: [2] 1. Parliament is dissolved. 2. The member is absent from Assembly sittings for a prescribed period (at least two consecutive sessions of Parliament). 3. If a member is declared insolvent, adjudged to be of unsound mind, sentenced to death or imprisonment, or ...
Unity Dow (née Diswai; born 23 April 1959) is a Motswana [Notes 1] lawyer, human rights activist, specially elected member of parliament, and a writer. She formerly served as a judge on the High Court of Botswana and in various Botswana government ministries. Born in the Bechuanaland Protectorate to a seamstress and a farmer, who insisted on ...
Following the Botswana Democratic Party's victory in the 2019 general election, President Mokgweetsi Masisi announced the formation of his second cabinet on 6 November 2019. [1] The cabinet was reformed in 2022 in what the government described as a rationalisation of responsibilities. [2]
The 12th Parliament of Botswana was the meeting of the National Assembly, the unicameral legislature of the Parliament of Botswana, with the membership determined by the results of the general election held on 23 October 2019. The legislature convened for the first time on 5 November 2019 and was dissolved on the 5th of September 2024.
Edwin Jenamiso Batshu (born June 21, 1947) [2] is a Botswana politician who served in the government of Botswana as Minister of Labour and Home Affairs from 2011. A member of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), Batshu is a member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Botswana and a member of SADC Parliamentary Forum Executive Committee from 2009 to 2011; previously, he was ...