{{short description|Political party in Burundi}} {{Multiple issues| {{Sources exist|date=July 2020}} {{more citations needed|date=July 2020}} }} {{Infobox political party | name = National Congress for Liberty | native_name = Congrès national pour la liberté | logo = National Congress for Liberty logo.png | logo_size = 150px | colorcode = {{party color|National Congress for Liberty}} | chairperson = | founder = [[Agathon Rwasa]] | leader = [[Agathon Rwasa]] | secretary_general = | spokesperson = | slogan = | founded = 12 September 2018 | registered = 14 February 2019 | dissolved = | split = [[National Forces of Liberation]] | merged = | successor = | headquarters = | newspaper = | paramilitary_wing = | student_wing = | youth_wing = | membership_year = | membership = | ideology = [[Hutu]] interests | position = | religion = | national = | international = | affiliation1_title = | affiliation1 = | colors = | symbol = | flag = | website = | state = Burundi | footnotes = | seats1_title = [[Senate (Burundi)|Senate]] | seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|13|{{party color|National Congress for Liberty}}}} | seats2_title = [[National Assembly (Burundi)|National Assembly]] | seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|111|{{party color|National Congress for Liberty}}}} }}
The '''National Congress for Liberty''' ({{langx|fr|Congrès national pour la liberté}}, '''CNL'''), sometimes translated as the '''National Congress for Freedom''' is a political party in [[Burundi]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ngendakumana |first1=Pierre Emmanuel |title=CNL, new party of Rwasa |url=https://www.iwacu-burundi.org/englishnews/cnl-new-party-of-rwasa/ |website=Iwacu |accessdate=13 June 2020 |date=18 February 2019}}</ref> It was founded by [[Agathon Rwasa]] on 12 September 2018 and is now the main opposition to the [[National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy|CNDD-FDD]]. After the dissolution of the [[National Forces of Liberation|National Liberation Forces]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=CNL, new party of Rwasa |url=https://www.iwacu-burundi.org/englishnews/cnl-new-party-of-rwasa/ |access-date=2024-09-12 |website=IWACU English News |language=en-US}}</ref> Rwasa founded the CNL.
==History== The National Forces of Liberation were a political party and former rebel group in Burundi. They fought in the [[Burundian Civil War]] and were the last rebel group to sign an agreement with the Burundian government which they did on September 7, 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nepal Constituent Assembly - Structure of Legislature Committee Work Schedule {{!}} UN Peacemaker |url=https://peacemaker.un.org/documents/nepal-constituent-assembly-structure-legislature-committee-work-schedule-0 |access-date=2024-09-12 |website=peacemaker.un.org}}</ref> Throughout the war they were known as Palipehutu-FNL (Party for the Liberation of the Hutu People), but after the war they registered as the FNL (National Forces of Liberation), as ethnic group names are not allowed in Burundian political party names. In their first election of 2010, they withdrew their candidate Agathon Rwasa due to allegations that the CNDD-FDD. would rig it. By 2015, they had ousted Rwasa and were allies of the CNDD-FDD. That year they won 1.08 percent of the vote after nominating Jacques Bigirimana. Rwasa ran as part of the alliance [[Independents of Hope]] which he formed with Charles Nditije. Rwasa received 19 percent of the vote. In 2018, Rwasa founded the National Congress for Liberty and it was registered on 14 February 2019. That year, Rwasa received 25% of the vote in an election but claimed the results were incorrect.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mohamed |first=Hamza |title=Burundi election results: What next? |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/5/26/burundi-election-results-what-next |access-date=2024-09-12 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref> That year, they won one seat in the [[Senate of Burundi (2020)|Senate]] and 32 in the [[National Assembly (Burundi)|National Assembly]].
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Burundian political parties}}
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