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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 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.
The Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) is a political party in Namibia. It was launched on 17 November 2007 under the leadership of Hidipo Hamutenya and Jesaya Nyamu, both former leading members of the ruling SWAPO party and cabinet ministers. Hamutenya had unsuccessfully sought the SWAPO nomination for President in 2004.
Namibia is a dominant-party state with the South-West Africa People's Organisation in power. Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power. Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.
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.
Panduleni Filemon Bango Itula (born 2 August 1957) [1] is a Namibian politician, dentist, lawyer, and former Chief Dentist at the Katutura State Hospital, as well as a former SWAPO party school lecturer. [2]
Although the party was founded after the 2004 Namibian local and regional elections it participated in the regional by-election in the Tobias Hainyeko constituency in October 2008. [10] However, it received only 164 votes, compared to 5,526 for SWAPO. The other political parties contesting the election withdrew two days prior to the election. [11]
SWAPO: Nahas Angula [2] 3 Marco Hausiku (1953–2021) 21 March 2010 21 March 2015 5 years SWAPO: Nahas Angula [2] Hage Geingob: 4 Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (born 1952) 21 March 2015: 4 February 2024 8 years, 320 days SWAPO: Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila [4] 5 John Mutorwa (born 1957) 9 February 2024: Incumbent 1 year, 2 days SWAPO: Saara Kuugongelwa ...