Tangeni Iiyambo is a Namibian politician. He is the president of the
South West Africa National Union
The South West Africa National Union (SWANU) is a Namibian political party founded in 1959. Most of its members came from the Herero people, while fellow independence movement SWAPO was mostly an Ovambo party. The party's president is Charles ...
(SWANU) since 2017.
Tangeni Iiyambo has served in the
National Assembly of Namibia
The National Assembly is the lower chamber of Namibia's bicameral Parliament. Its laws must be approved by the National Council, the upper house. Since 2014, it has a total of 104 members. 96 members are directly elected through a system of clos ...
since 2018. In the
2019 Namibian general election
General elections were held in Namibia on 27 November 2019. Ballots were cast using electronic voting. A total of eleven candidates ran for the presidency and fifteen political parties contested the National Assembly elections.
Hage Geingob of S ...
Iiyambo ran as presidential candidate. He only gathered 0.7% of the popular vote but will continue to occupy the sole seat in Parliament that SWANU won.
References
External links
Swanu Appeal For Socialism Usutuaije Maamberua. ''The Namibian'', 12 December 2008
Living people
Members of the National Assembly (Namibia)
SWANU politicians
Candidates for President of Namibia
Year of birth missing (living people)
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