Gender Quotas Database

The National Assembly is composed of at least 100 deputies in rates of 60% Hutu and 40% Tutsi, of which a minimum of 30% must be women, elected by direct universal suffrage for a term of 5 years and 3 deputies issuing from the Twa ethnicity co-opted according to the electoral code (Article 169).

Article 108 (1) of the 2014 Electoral Code stipulates that at least 30% of the members of the National Assembly must be women. In addition Article 127 (4) of the Electoral Code states that lists must take gender balance into account and that one in 4 candidates must be a woman.

"In the case that the results of an election do not reflect the percentages outlined above, it proceeds to the rectification of corresponding imbalances by means of cooptation provided for in the Electoral Code" (Article 169). 

According to the Electoral Law, if the election results do not fulfill the quota requirements, a process of co-optation will follow, whereby the Electoral Administration adds, from the candidate lists that have obtained at least 5% of the votes cast, more members from the under-represented ethnic group or gender until the quota requirements are met (Article 108 .2 of the Electoral Code).

”The elections of deputies occur following the ballot of bloc lists by proportional representation. These lists must have a multiethnic character and take into account the balance between men and women. For three candidates registered on a list, only two can belong to the same ethnic group, and at least one of three must be a woman” (Article 173).