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Léonce Ngendakumana is a Burundian politician who was
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of the
National Assembly of Burundi The National Assembly is the lower chamber of Parliament in Burundi. It consists of 100 directly elected members (or deputies) and between 18 and 23 co-opted members who serve five-year terms. Deputies are elected in 17 multi-member constituenc ...
from 1995–1996, and again from 1998–2002. He was born in 1954 in the province of Bujumbura, to a modest family. He launched his political career at a young age when he became politically active in the BAMPERE party, until the creation of the
Burundi Workers' Party Burundi Workers' Party (french: Parti des travailleurs du Burundi, PTB; rn, Umugambwe w'Abakozi b'Uburundi, UBU) was a clandestine communist party in Burundi. Its primary constituency was the large Burundian refugee population situated in neigh ...
(UBU). He was one of the founders of the
Front for Democracy in Burundi The Front for Democracy in Burundi (french: link=no, Front pour la Démocratie au Burundi, FRODEBU) is a Hutu progressive political party in Burundi. History It was formed by followers of Melchior Ndadaye from the disbanded Burundi Workers' ...
(FRODÉBU), and in 2006, he became its secretary-general.


Electoral Mandates

He was elected to represent Bujumbura in the
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. In 1995, he became President of the Assembly, holding that post until 2002. He was re-elected as deputy in the 2005 elections but his party, FRODÉBU, failed to gain control of the Assembly.


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