Democratic Green Party of Rwanda (DGPR) and PS-Imberakuri have each secured two seats in the Lower House, after winning 5% of the vote as the minimum constitutional requirement for a party or independent candidate to enter the parliament.
In the preliminary results announced by the National Electoral Commission (NEC), the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) and allied six parties won 74% equivalent to 40 seats out of 53 contested for in the general elections.
NEC President Prof. Kalisa Mbanda said Liberal Party (PL) and Social Democratic Party (PSD) respectively won 9% and 7% equivalent to five and four seats.
Nobody of the four independent candidates won a seat. They all scored below 1% including Philippe Mpayimana who also scored below 1% in the last year’s presidential elections.
DGPR also contested for the presidency last year but its chairman and then candidate Dr Frank Habineza got 0.48% votes, losing to the incumbent President and then RPF candidate Paul Kagame who won about 99%.
Habineza and DGPR Executive Secretary Jean Claude Ntezimana are now heading to the 80-seat parliament in the next five-year term.
PS Imberakuri had also contested in the legislatives in 2013 but won no seat. And now, its president Christine Mukabunani and member Jean René Niyorurema are going to represent the party in the House.
Compared to immediate last term, RPF and PL have lost one seat each while PSD loses two.
Meanwhile, in the elections held on Tuesday for the youth representatives, NEC announced that Erneste Kamanzi and Clarisse Maniriho won the seats.
Eugène Mussolini also won on Sunday to represent people with disabilities.
Elections were also held Tuesday for 24 women representatives equivalent to 30% of the chamber of deputies as stipulated by the Constitution but NEC hasn’t yet announced the results.
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