Parliament of Botswana Palamente ya Botswana | |
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| 13th Parliament | |
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| Houses | National Assembly |
| History | |
| Founded | 1 March 1965 |
| Leadership | |
Dithapelo Keorapetse since 7 November 2024 | |
Deputy Speaker | Helen Manyeneng, UDC since 7 November 2024 |
Duma Boko since 1 November 2024 | |
Leader of the House | Ndaba Gaolathe, UDC since 7 November 2024 |
Government Whip | TBD, UDC |
Opposition whip | Caterpillar Hikuama, BCP since 11 November 2024 |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 69 |
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National Assembly political groups | Government (49)
Official opposition (15) Other opposition (4) Presiding officer (1)
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| Elections | |
| First-past-the-post voting | |
Last National Assembly election | 30 October 2024 |
| Meeting place | |
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| National Assembly Chamber Gaborone South-East District | |
| Website | |
| www | |
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| Constitution |
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The Parliament of Botswana consists of the President and the National Assembly.[2] In contrast to other parliamentary systems, the Parliament elects the President directly (instead of having both a ceremonial President and a Prime Minister who has real authority as head of government) for a set five-year term of office. A president can only serve 2 full terms. The President is both Head of state and of government in Botswana's parliamentary republican system. 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.
There also exists a body known as Ntlo ya Dikgosi, (The House of Chiefs), which is an advisory body that does not form part of the Parliament.[4]
Botswana is one of only two nations on the African continent (with the other being Mauritius) to have achieved a clean record of free and fair elections since independence, having held 11 elections since 1966 without any serious incidents of corruption.[5]
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- ^ a b "FAQs". parliament.gov.bw. Parliament of Botswana. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
2 are Ex-officios being the President and The Speaker
- ^ Constitution of the Republic of Botswana, 1966
- ^ "Parliament of Botswana". Parliament of Botswana. 19 March 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ^ Proctor, J. H. (1968). "The House of Chiefs and the Political Development of Botswana". The Journal of Modern African Studies. 6 (1): 59–79. doi:10.1017/S0022278X00016670. ISSN 0022-278X. JSTOR 158677. S2CID 154486897.
- ^ US State Department