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SWAPO announced a gender equality system where women would fill half of their seats in parliament. The party also embraced what it called a "zebra system", whereby if a minister was a woman, the deputy minister would be a man, and vice versa. Because there were more male SWAPO MPs than female MPs,
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Central Committee produced a policy document stating that the party's candidate would be chosen for each election among the top four Committee members. In March 2011 SWAPO declared that whoever was the party's vice-president following the forthcoming party elections would also be the party's
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were approved a month prior to the election against the votes of opposition parties, as SWAPO had a two-thirds majority in Parliament. Since then, instead of 78 seats (72 elected, 6 appointed) there 104 seats in the National Assembly (96 elected, 8 appointed).
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Originally, incumbent President Pohamba predicted that twenty-two candidates would contest the presidential election. In the end, only nine political parties submitted presidential candidates.
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SWAPO put forward plans to expand parliament to remove the risk of male MPs losing their seats as a result of this gender policy. These changes to the
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party, won the presidential elections with 87% of the vote. SWAPO also won the National Assembly elections, taking 80% of the vote.
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and for seagoing personnel on 14 November. The elections were the first on the African continent to use
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A total of nine candidates ran for the presidency, whilst 16 political parties contested the
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candidate in 2014 for president. Some high-level party members, particularly
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Namibia's 'zebra' politics could make it stand out from the global herd
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SWAPO was viewed as the clear favorite going into the election.
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on 28 November 2014, although early voting took place in
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Namibian general election, 2014
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Hage Geingob
McHenry Venaani
SWAPO
DTA

Hifikepunye Pohamba
SWAPO
Hage Geingob
SWAPO
Politics of Namibia

Constitution
Constituent Assembly
Executive
President
Nangolo Mbumba
Vice-President
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
Prime Minister
Saara Kuugongelwa
Cabinet
Legislature
National Council
Chairman
Bernard Sibalatani

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