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The 7th National Assembly has 104 seats. 96 candidates were elected according to party lists and are assembled below in the order they appear on their party lists. South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO)
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.
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]
In November 2024, the party contested in the 2024 Namibian general election, with its Founder and President, Panduleni Itula, as their presidential candidate. The party received 220,809 votes (20.2%) of the national vote, and gained 20 seats in the Parliament of Namibia. It became the second strongest parliamentary party, behind SWAPO.
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.
In 2008, the SWAPO Central Committee produced a policy document stating that the party's candidate would be chosen for each election among the top four Committee members. . In March 2011 SWAPO declared that whoever was the party's vice-president following the forthcoming party elections would also be the party's candidate in 2014 for preside
In June 2009, he called on the SWAPO party youth to take up arms and, as he put it, "drive the colonists out of the country". [48] In 2009, Sam Nujoma attacked the German-speaking Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (DELK), accusing it of having "collaborated with the enemy before independence and possibly still being an enemy".
Hidipo Livius Hamutenya (17 June 1939 – 6 October 2016) was a Namibian politician. Veteran politician Hidipo Hamutenya died at 77 after a short illness. [1] A long-time leading member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Hamutenya was a member of the Cabinet of Namibia from independence in 1990 to 2004, serving in several important ministerial portfolios.