Politique en Rwanda (French) Siasa ya Rwanda (Swahili)
Seal of Rwanda
Polity type
De facto: one-party state Nominally unitary dominant-party semi-presidential constitutional republic
Constitution
Constitution of Rwanda
Legislative branch
Name
Parliament
Type
Bicameral
Upper house
Name
Senate
Presiding officer
Augustin Iyamuremye, Speaker of the Senate
Lower house
Name
Chamber of Deputies
Presiding officer
Donatille Mukabalisa, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies
Executive branch
Head of State
Title
President of Rwanda
Currently
Paul Kagame
Appointer
Direct popular vote
Head of Government
Title
Prime Minister
Currently
Édouard Ngirente
Appointer
President
Cabinet
Name
Cabinet of Rwanda
Current cabinet
Kagame government
Leader
President
Deputy leader
Prime Minister
Appointer
President
Judicial branch
Supreme Court of Rwanda
Chief judge
Faustin Ntezilyayo
Politics of Rwanda
Constitution
Human rights
International Criminal Tribunal
Government
President
Paul Kagame
Prime Minister
Édouard Ngirente
Cabinet
Parliament
Senate
President: Bernard Makuza
Chamber of Deputies
Speaker: Donatille Mukabalisa
Judiciary
Supreme Court
Administrative divisions
Provinces
Districts
Elections
Recent elections
President: 2017
2024
Assembly: 2018
2024
Senate: 2011
2019
Political parties
Foreign relations
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
Ministry: Richard Sezibera
Diplomatic missions of / in Rwanda
Passport
Visa requirements
Visa policy
United Nations in Rwanda
UNOMUR
UNAMIR
UNREO
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Rwanda is a de facto one-party state[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] ruled by the Rwandan Patriotic Front and its leader Paul Kagame since the end of the 1994 genocide against members of the Tutsi ethnic group.[8][9][10] Although Rwanda is nominally democratic, elections are manipulated in various ways, which include banning opposition parties, arresting or assassinating critics, and electoral fraud.[11]
Rwandan law developed from Belgian and German civil law systems[12] and customary law takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential republic, whereby the President of Rwanda is the head of state with significant executive power, with the Prime Minister of Rwanda being the constitutional head of government.
Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. On 5 May 1995, the Transitional National Assembly adopted a new constitution which included elements of the constitution of 18 June 1991 as well as provisions of the 1993 Arusha peace accord and the November 1994 multiparty protocol of understanding.
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^Thomson, Susan (2018). Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace. Yale University Press. p. 185. ISBN 978-0-300-23591-3.
^Ph.D, Joseph Sebarenzi; Twagiramungu, Noel (8 April 2019). "Rwanda's economic growth could be derailed by its autocratic regime". The Conversation. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
^Waldorf, Lars (2005). "Rwanda's failing experiment in restorative justice". Handbook of Restorative Justice. Routledge. p. ?. ISBN 978-0-203-34682-2.
^Beswick, Danielle (2011). "Aiding State Building and Sacrificing Peace Building? The Rwanda–UK relationship 1994–2011". Third World Quarterly. 32 (10): 1911–1930. doi:10.1080/01436597.2011.610593. S2CID 153404360.
^Bowman, Warigia (2015). Four. Imagining a Modern Rwanda: Sociotechnological Imaginaries, Information Technology, and the Postgenocide State. University of Chicago Press. p. 87. doi:10.7208/9780226276663-004 (inactive 31 January 2024). ISBN 978-0-226-27666-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link)
^Reyntjens, Filip (2011). "Behind the Façade of Rwanda's Elections". Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. 12 (2): 64–69. ISSN 1526-0054. JSTOR 43133887.
^"Outreach Programme on the Rwanda Genocide and the United Nations". www.un.org. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
^Stroh, Alexander (2010). "Electoral rules of the authoritarian game: undemocratic effects of proportional representation in Rwanda". Journal of Eastern African Studies. 4 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1080/17531050903550066. S2CID 154910536.
^Matfess, Hilary (2015). "Rwanda and Ethiopia: Developmental Authoritarianism and the New Politics of African Strong Men". African Studies Review. 58 (2): 181–204. doi:10.1017/asr.2015.43. S2CID 143013060.
^Waldorf, Lars (2017). "The Apotheosis of a Warlord: Paul Kagame". In Themnér, Anders (ed.). Warlord Democrats in Africa: Ex-Military Leaders and Electoral Politics(PDF). Bloomsbury Academic / Nordic Africa Institute. ISBN 978-1-78360-248-3.
^"Politics in Rwanda | About Rwanda". www.aboutrwanda.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
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