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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| Leadership | |
Speaker of the Assembly | |
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| Seats | 250 |
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Party-list proportional representation D'Hondt method | |
Last election | 15 October 2014 |
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| Maputo, Mozambique | |
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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
| Parties | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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| 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 | |||||||
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| 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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