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Centrist Democratic Party (Rwanda)
The Centrist Democratic Party (, PDC) is a political party in Rwanda. History The party was established as the Christian Democratic Party (''Parti Démocratique Chrêtien'') in 1991 by Jean-Népomuscène Nayinzira.Aimable Twagilimana (2007) ''Historical Dictionary of Rwanda'', Scarecrow Press, p135 It joined the government in December 1991 and was given a single ministerial post.Tom Lansford (2014) ''Political Handbook of the World 2014'', CQ Press, p1204 In the run-up to the August 2003 presidential elections the party was banned as a result of a constitutional prohibition on religious-based parties. The party was reconstituted as the Centrist Democratic Party in time to contest the September parliamentary 2003 elections, in which it allied itself with the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front, winning three seats. PDC leader Alfred Mukezamfura was elected Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies. The party continued its alliance with the RPF for the 2008 parliamentary elections, but w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mukabaranga Agnès
Agnes Mukabaranga is a Rwandan politician. Mukabaranga is a member of the Christian Democratic Party (Rwanda), Christian Democratic Party (PDC) and member of both the Pan-African Parliament and former member of both the National Assembly of Rwanda, National Assembly and the Senate of Rwanda, Rwandan Senate. She is a lawyer by profession. Political career Mukabaranga was appointed an inaugural member of the transitional National Assembly of Rwanda, National Assembly, which was set up following the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and was loosely based on the Arusha Accords (Rwanda), Arusha Accords agreed the previous year. In 2003, a Rwandan Constitution, new permanent constitution was approved for the country in a referendum, which established a multi-party state with a bicameral parliament consisting of a senate and a chamber of deputies. Mukabaranga was appointed to the new senate following the election of Paul Kagame as the first president under the new constitution. She was one of 39 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Mukezamfura
Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series *Alfred (Arne opera), ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne *Alfred (Dvořák), ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlude)" and "Alfred (Outro)", songs by Eminem from the 2020 album ''Music to Be Murdered By'' Business and organisations * Alfred, a radio station in Shaftesbury, England *Alfred Music, an American music publisher *Alfred University, New York, U.S. *The Alfred Hospital, a hospital in Melbourne, Australia People * Alfred (name) includes a list of people and fictional characters called Alfred * Alfred the Great (848/49 – 899), or Alfred I, a king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons Places Antarctica * Mount Alfred (Antarctica) Australia * Alfredtown, New South Wales * County of Alfred, South Australia Canada * Alfred and Plantagenet, Ontario * Alfred Island, Nunavut * Mount Alfred, British Colu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Parties Established In 1991
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christianity In Rwanda
Christianity is the largest religion in Rwanda. The most recent national census from 2012 indicates that: 43.7% of Rwanda's population is Roman Catholicism in Rwanda, Roman Catholic, 37.7% is Protestant, 11.8% is Seventh-day Adventist, 2.0% is Islam in Rwanda, Muslim (mainly Sunni Islam, Sunni), 2.5% claims no religious affiliation, and 0.7% is Jehovah's Witness. There is also a small population of Bahá'í Faith in Rwanda, Baha'is, as well as some practising African traditional religion, traditional indigenous beliefs. There has been a proliferation of small, usually Christian-linked schismatic religious groups since the Rwandan genocide, 1994 genocide.International Religious Freedom Report, 2013 Rwanda, United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Retrieved 2019-05-25 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democratic Parties In Africa
Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χριστός), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term ''mashiach'' (מָשִׁיחַ) (usually rendered as ''messiah'' in English). While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term ''Christian'' used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." It does not have a meaning of 'of Christ' or 'related or pertaining to Christ'. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, up from about 600 million in 1910. Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Parties In Rwanda
This article lists political parties in Rwanda. Rwanda is a dominant-party system, one-party-dominant state with the Rwandan Patriotic Front in power. Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power. Active parties Parties represented in the Chamber of Deputies Parties without representation in the Chamber of Deputies *Rwandan Socialist Party Former parties *National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development *Coalition for the Defence of the Republic *Rwandese National Union Illegal parties *Rwandese Protocol to Return the Kingdom (led by Eugene Nkubito) *Coalition of Democratic Forces (led by John Kanyamanza) *Party for Democratic Renewal (led by former president Pasteur Bizimungu) *Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda *Republican Democratic Movement *Rwanda National Congress (led by Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa) *Movement for Democratic Change in Rwanda See also * Politics of Rwanda * List of political par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rwandan Parliamentary Election, 2013
Parliamentary elections were held in Rwanda between 16 and 18 September 2013. The result was a victory for the Rwandan Patriotic Front, which maintained its absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies, winning 41 of the 80 seats. Electoral system Of the 80 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, 53 were directly elected by closed list proportional representation with an electoral threshold of 5%. A further 27 seats were indirectly elected by local and national councils, including 24 reserved for women, two for representatives of youth and one for representatives of handicapped.Rwandans vote in parliamentary elections Al Jazeera, 16 September 2013 Conduct In the weekend preceding the election, on 13 and 14 September, two grenades exploded in a Kigali market. The Rwandan go ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnès Mukabaranga
Agnes Mukabaranga is a Rwandan politician. Mukabaranga is a member of the Christian Democratic Party (Rwanda), Christian Democratic Party (PDC) and member of both the Pan-African Parliament and former member of both the National Assembly of Rwanda, National Assembly and the Senate of Rwanda, Rwandan Senate. She is a lawyer by profession. Political career Mukabaranga was appointed an inaugural member of the transitional National Assembly of Rwanda, National Assembly, which was set up following the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and was loosely based on the Arusha Accords (Rwanda), Arusha Accords agreed the previous year. In 2003, a Rwandan Constitution, new permanent constitution was approved for the country in a referendum, which established a multi-party state with a bicameral parliament consisting of a senate and a chamber of deputies. Mukabaranga was appointed to the new senate following the election of Paul Kagame as the first president under the new constitution. She was one of 39 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rwandan Parliamentary Election, 2008
Parliamentary elections were held in Rwanda from 15 to 18 September 2008. The elections were boycotted by the opposition,Rwanda votes in election without opposition Mail & Guardian, 15 September 2008. and resulted in a victory for the ruling (FPR), which won 42 of the 53 elected seats. The elections also produced the world's first national parliament with a female majority. Electoral system The 80 members of the consisted ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rwandan Patriotic Front
The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF–Inkotanyi, french: Front patriotique rwandais, FPR) is the ruling political party in Rwanda. Led by President Paul Kagame, the party has governed the country since its armed wing defeated government forces, winning the Rwandan Civil War in 1994. Since 1994, the party has ruled Rwanda using tactics which have been characterised as authoritarian. Elections are manipulated in various ways, which include banning opposition parties, arresting or assassinating critics, and electoral fraud. History Rwandese Alliance for National Unity Following the overthrow of Idi Amin in 1979, the Tutsi refugee intelligentsia in Uganda set up the region's first political refugee organization, the Rwandese Alliance for National Unity (RANU), to discuss a possible return to Rwanda. Though primarily a forum for intellectual discussion, it became militant after Milton Obote's election of 1980 resulted in many Tutsi refugees joining Yoweri Museveni in fighting the Ugan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democracy
Christian democracy (sometimes named Centrist democracy) is a political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching and neo-Calvinism. It was conceived as a combination of modern democratic ideas and traditional Christian values, incorporating social justice and the social teachings espoused by the Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Pentecostal, and other denominational traditions of Christianity in various parts of the world. After World War II, Catholic and Protestant movements of neo-scholasticism and the Social Gospel shaped Christian democracy. On the traditional left-right political spectrum Christian Democracy has been difficult to pinpoint as Christian democrats rejected liberal economics and individualism and advocated state intervention, but simultaneously defended private property rights against excessive state intervention. This has meant that Christian Democracy has historically been considered centre left on eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
