Editing Sierra Leone (section)

=== Parliament ===
{{Main|Parliament of Sierra Leone}}
The Parliament of Sierra Leone is [[unicameral]], with 149 seats. Each of the country's 16 districts is represented in parliament. 135 members are elected concurrently with the presidential elections; the other 14 seats are filled by [[paramount chief]]s from the country's [[Administrative division|administrative districts]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-06-01|title=Parliament of Sierra Leone > Home|url=http://www.parliament.gov.sl/|access-date=2021-02-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601231404/http://www.parliament.gov.sl/|archive-date=1 June 2019}}</ref> The Sierra Leone parliament is led by the Speaker of Parliament, who is directly elected by sitting members of parliament. The current speaker of the Sierra Leone parliament is [[Abass Bundu]], who was elected on 21 January 2014.

The current members of the Parliament of Sierra Leone were elected in the [[2023 Sierra Leonean general election]]. The APC currently has 54 of the 135 elected parliamentary seats, and the [[Sierra Leone People's Party]] (SLPP) has 81 of the seats. Members of parliament must be a citizen of Sierra Leone over the age of twenty-one, be a registered elector, and be proficient in the English language.<ref name="nyulawglobal.org" /> Since independence in 1961, Sierra Leone's politics has been dominated by two major political parties: the SLPP and the APC. Other minor political parties have also existed but with no significant support.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Sierra Leone National Election Commission Bulletin
|date=September–December 2011
|url=http://www.nec-sierraleone.org/Bulletin.html
|access-date=25 February 2012
|archive-date=14 November 2012
|archive-url=https://swap.stanford.edu/20121114222820/http://www.nec-sierraleone.org/Bulletin.html
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>