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Indirect parliamentary elections were held in Burundi in 1957.
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country amid the African Great Lakes region where East and Central Africa converge. The capital is Gitega, having moved from Bujumbura in February 2019. The southwestern border is adjacent to Lake Tanganyika.
The Decree of 14 July 1952 by the Belgian authorities had introduced an element of democracy to the Burundian political system. A complicated electoral system was created, which involved seven stages of elections to eventually elect the National Superior Council (French : Superieur du Pays). [1]
French is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) has largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French.
The elections began in the sub-chiefdoms, then were held in the chiefdoms, then the territories, and finally at the national level. [2]
The elections in the sub-chiefdoms in 1956, with the elections to the Chiefdom Councils, Territorial Councils and the Superior Council following in 1957. [3] The number of Tutsis elected to all bodies increased, whilst the number of elected Hutus decreased in comparison with the 1954 elections. [3]
| Council | Members | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hutus | Tutsis | Total | |||
| Elected | Unelected | Elected | Unelected | ||
| Sub-chiefdom councils | 2,240 | 0 | 1,134 | 530 | 3,904 |
| Chiefdom councils | 66 | 0 | 192 | 24 | 282 |
| Territorial councils | 12 | 0 | 56 | 24 | 92 |
| Superior Council | 0 | 2 | 29 | 31 | |
| Source: Sternberger et al. | |||||
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