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Encyclopedia > Elections in Burundi
Politics of Burundi

Politics of Burundi
Political parties in Burundi
Elections in Burundi In November 1995, the presidents of Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zaire announced a regional initiative for a negotiated peace in Burundi facilitated by former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere. ... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in elections. ...

Elections in Burundi gives information on election and election results in Burundi. An election is a decision making process whereby people vote for preferred political candidates or parties to act as representatives in government. ...


Burundi elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) has 81 members, elected for a five year term by proportional representation with a 5 % barrier. On 16 july 1998 the Assembly was reformed into the Assemblée nationale de transition (National Transition Assembly), whereby 40 additional members were appointed, belonging to political parties and civil society. Burundi has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party. parties are usually based on ethnic background. Though a term originally coined for Republican presidents, a head of state or chief of state is now universally known as the chief public representative of a nation-state, federation or commonwealth, whose role generally includes personifying the continuity and legitimacy of the state and exercising the political powers, functions... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. ... Chamber of the Estates-General, the Dutch legislature. ... Proportional representation (PR) is any election system which ensures a proportionally representative result of a democratic election, x% of votes should be represented by x% in the democratic institutions, parliament or congress. ... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues. ... A two-party system is a type of party system where only two political parties have a realistic chance of winning an election. ... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues. ... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues. ...

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Last elections

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Past elections

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Referenda

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See also

This electoral calendar lists the national/federal direct elections in the countries listed in the list of countries. ...

External links

  • Electionworld
  • Adam Carr's Election Archive
  • African Elections Database

  Results from FactBites:
 
Burundi. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (1355 words)
Burundi is one of the poorest, smallest, and most densely populated nations in Africa.
During World War I, Belgian forces occupied (1916) Burundi, and in 1919 it became part of the Belgian League of Nations mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (which in 1946 became a UN trust territory).
Burundi was convulsed by ethnic violence in which thousands of Hutus and Tutsis died, and many fled the country.
Polling stations open in Burundi (494 words)
The elections will be crucial in determining both the majority in the country's parliament and the eventual selection of Burundi's first post-transitional president on August 19.
The FDD is Burundi's former main Hutu rebel group which renounced armed struggle to push for representation in the army.
All of Burundi's former rebels groups are now part of the transitional government with the exception of the National Liberation Forces (FNL), which have continued to carry out armed raids in and around the capital Bujumbura despite having agreed a truce with the government in May.
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