According to Rwanda\u2019s constitution, Swearing in of the Members of the Low Chamber of Parliament is presided over by the President of the Republic, a responsibility taken over by the President of the Supreme Court in case of the President\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n
In their first meeting session, the MPs vote for the Speaker of Parliament and his\/her two deputies; one in charge of legislation and the other in charge of Finance and Human Resources.<\/p>\n
The Rwanda\u2019s Low Chamber of Parliament comprises of members of who 53 are elected through political parties, 24 reserved for women, two youth representatives and one for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n
The Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) with its coalition parties have won the majority with 40 seats, Social Democratic Party (PSD) won five seats while the Liberal Party (PL) secured four.<\/p>\n
Two new political parties with representatives in the Rwandan Parliament for the first time are Democratic Green Party of Rwanda (DGPR) and PS Imberakuri with two seats each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Members of Parliament elected recently for a five-year time (2018-2023) will be sworn in tomorrow, Thursday, after which will officially assume their duties on October 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[636],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-ighe"],"bylines":[{"id":636,"name":"IGHE","slug":"ighe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":636,"name":"IGHE","slug":"ighe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38177"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38177"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}