{"iso":"BI","name":"Burundi","flag":"\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddee","vote":"National Assembly \u00b7 official result, not competitive","model":"noncomp","updated":"2025-06-05","source":"2025 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling. Shares are the party vote at the National Assembly election of 5 June 2025, official results as published by the electoral commission CENI. The main opposition CNL was effectively excluded, the ruling CNDD-FDD was credited with above 96 percent, and the UPRONA leader said the result had killed democracy. Parties below one percent are aggregated as others.","shares":{"CNDD":96.5,"UPRONA":1.4,"OTH":2.1},"polls":[],"parties":{"CNDD":{"name":"CNDD-FDD","color":"#C8102E","name_en":"National Council for the Defense of Democracy, CNDD-FDD"},"UPRONA":{"name":"Union pour le Progr\u00e8s National","color":"#2E86C1","name_en":"Union for National Progress"},"OTH":{"name":"Other parties and independents","color":"#9a9a9a"}},"primer":{"system":"Presidential republic under dominant-party rule","head_of_state":"President \u00c9variste Ndayishimiye","head_of_government":"Prime Minister Nestor Ntahontuye","legislature":"National Assembly of about 110 members including co-opted seats for ethnic balance, plus a Senate.","electoral_system":"Members are elected by proportional representation with constitutional ethnic quotas. The president is directly elected.","government_now":"The CNDD-FDD holds 108 of 111 seats after the June 2025 election, with the opposition CNL barred in practice from competing.","context":"The ruling party has controlled Burundi since the end of the civil war in 2005. A presidential election is due in 2027, and the country ranks among the world's poorest, with chronic fuel and foreign-exchange shortages.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"CNDD":["CNDD-FDD","National Council for the Defense of Democracy \u2013 Forces for the Defense of Democracy","Former Hutu rebel movement turned dominant ruling party since 2005; nationalist and authoritarian, it holds virtually every seat."],"UPRONA":["Union pour le Progr\u00e8s National","Union for National Progress","Historic Tutsi-linked party that was the sole ruling party after independence; now a marginal opposition that won no seats in 2025."],"OTH":["Other parties and independents","","Co-opted ethnic-minority (Twa) members and other small parties; the main opposition CNL was effectively barred from competing."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"National Assembly","as_of":"2025 election","total":111,"seats":{"CNDD":108,"UPRONA":0,"OTH":3}},"has_geo":true,"geo_meta":{"kind":"admin1","source":"Natural Earth 10m admin-1 states/provinces (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector), retrieved 2026-07-02","note":"Region set and any internationally-disputed territories follow the Natural Earth source dataset. Far overseas/outlying territories may fall outside the primary map frame."},"next_election":{"date":"2030","title":"Burundian parliamentary election","chamber":"National Assembly","type":"expected"}}