TITLE:
The Social Representativeness of FRODEDU Political Party in Burundi from 1993 to 2020 through Legislative Elections
AUTHORS:
Lambert Ndikumana
KEYWORDS:
Social Representativeness, FRODEBU, Political Party, Burundi, Legislative Elections
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.13,
December
30,
2022
ABSTRACT: FRODEBU
is a political party founded by Melchior Ndadaye and his near collaborators with the purpose of
setting up democracy in Burundi, in central Africa. June 1993 pluralist and
democratic elections were won by this party which was then led by Melchior
Ndadaye himself, who became the first Burundi democratically elected President,
and who was killed in a military coup attempt on October 21, 1993, after three
months only on power. During the 1993 electoral campaign, masses had been
extremely enthusiastic, with a strong hope in a peaceful and prosperous new
Burundi promised by Ndadaye. This research paper whose title is “The Social
Representativeness of FRODEBU Political Party in Burundi from 1993 to 2020
through Legislative Elections” has been produced with the aim of showing the
rate of the social representativeness of FRODEBU political party in Burundi
from 1993 to 2020 through legislative elections. Its main research question was
as follows: “What is the size of the social representativeness of FRODEBU
political party through legislative elections held in Burundi from 1993 to
2020?” In order to answer this question, the researcher has used ICT first:
Much information has been collected thanks to Internet. The reading of physical
books and journals has also been useful. Another method which has been used was
interview with informed people, notably some teachers of primary and secondary
schools who work in Ngozi town in Burundi. Throughout this research, and through the results of
legislative elections held in Burundi from 1993 to 2020, it has been shown that
the social representativeness of FRODEBU political party is declining in this
way: 72.55% in 1993, 24% in 2005, 0% in 2010 and 2015, and 0.7% in 2020.