Assembly of the Republic (Mozambique)

This article is about the parliament of Mozambique. For other uses, see Assembly of the Republic (disambiguation).
Assembly of the Republic
Assembleia da República
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Type
Type
Leadership
Speaker of the Assembly
Structure
Seats 250
Political groups
  FRELIMO: 144 seats
  MDM: 17 seats
  RENAMO: 89 seats, (in abstention)
Elections
Party-list proportional representation
D'Hondt method
Last election
15 October 2014
Meeting place
Maputo, Mozambique
Website
www.parlamento.mz
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The unicameral Assembly of the Republic (Portuguese: Assembleia da República) is the legislative body of Mozambique.

The current parliament has 250 members who are directly elected through a system of party-list proportional representation and serve five-year terms. Parties must receive at least five percent of the vote nationally to gain parliamentary representation. Currently only two parties are represented in the parliament, FRELIMO and the Democratic Movement of Mozambique. RENAMO MPs have refused to take office, since the party considers that the last election has been fraudulent.

2009 parliamentary election results

 Summary of the 28 October 2009 Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique election results
Parties Votes % Seats +/–
Liberation Front of Mozambique (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique, FRELIMO) 2,907,335 74.66 191 +31
Mozambican National Resistance (Resistência Nacional Moçambicana, RENAMO) 688,782 17.68 51 –39
Democratic Movement of Mozambique (Movimento Democrático de Moçambique, MDM) 152,836 3.93 8 +8
Others 3.73 0 ±0
Total (turnout 44.4 %) 100.00 250 ±0
Source: AIM - Mozambique News Agency

Constituency-wise results

The numbers of the deputies of the FRELIMO, RENAMO and MDM elected from each constituency on 28 October, 2009 are as follows:

Party Niassa Cabo Delgado Nampula Zambezia Tete Manica Sofala Inhambane Gaza Maputo Province Maputo City Africa Rest of the world Total
FRELIMO 12 19 32 26 18 12 10 15 16 15 14 1 1 191
RENAMO 2 3 13 19 2 4 5 1 0 1 1 0 0 51
MDM 0 - - - - - 5 0 - - 3 - - 8

Previous parliamentary election results

Political Party Election Year
1994 1999 2004 2009
Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 129 133 160 191
Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) 112 - - 51
Mozambican National Resistance-Electoral Union (RENAMO-UE) - 117 90 -
Democratic Union (UD) 09 - - 08
Total 250 250 250 250

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