My government has established some democratic institutions – the Govern...

“My government has established some democratic institutions – the Government, the National Assembly and the Senate, all largely representative of the Burundi population and which respect the need for an ethnic and gender balance. It is important to highlight the parity in male-female representation in the Senate. Burundi has deliberately chosen to do this, by a voluntary action, so that the majority of the population- women- are represented in important institutions of the Republic.”