Pascal Nyabenda’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Burundian politician
Was Politician
From Burundi
Type Politics
Gender male
Birth

12 April 1966, Commune of Mpanda, Bubanza Province, Burundi

Death

2000
(aged 33 years)

Star sign Aries
Politics National Council for the Defense of Democracy–Forces for the Defense of Democracy

Pascal Nyabenda (born 12 April 1966) is a Burundian politician, who serves as President of the National Assembly of Burundi since 2015. He has been president of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy since March 2012 (as well as heading the party’s parliamentary group prior) and previously served as Governor of Bubanza Province.

Biography

Pascal Nyabenda was born in Mpanda in Bubanza Province, Burundi on 12 April 1966. He worked as a teacher but fled into exile in 1995 during the Burundian Civil War. He lived as a refugee in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Tanzania, and became a representative of the rebel National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy (Conseil national pour la Défense de la Démocratie – Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie, CNDD–FDD). He returned to Burundi under the regime of President Pierre Nkurunziza and held various offices. He served as Governor of Bubanza Province from March 2006.

Nyabenda was elected to the National Assembly in the June 2015 parliamentary election as a CNDD–FDD candidate, and he was elected by the deputies as President of the National Assembly on 30 July 2015. There was no other candidate for the post, and Nyabenda received 101 votes.

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