The Parliament of Tanzanian has now been officially dissolved.
Operations of the National Assembly have been suspended for four months in order to pave way for the forthcoming ‘General Elections,’ thus sending the legislators back to their constituencies to try their luck in being voted back to the parliament again.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan winded up the 12th National Assembly in Dodoma on the 27th of June 2025 with a national speech aired from the parliamentary building in the new capital city.
The Parliament building will thus be locked up for 12 weeks, until the anticipated inauguration of the 13th Assembly which comes up in November 2025, shortly after the ‘Elections!’
The dates for the General Elections are yet to be announced by the electoral commission, but it will possibly be within the second of third week of October 2025.
The Marathon for political campaigns for both parliamentary and presidential elections will start from August 2025 and run for over ten weeks, countrywide.
The Tanzanian Parliament, which essentially is the National Assembly, just like the President of the United Republic, obtains its mandate and functions from Chapter 3 of the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania.
The Constitution contains Articles that grant for the establishment, composition and functions of the Parliament.
The National Assembly which has just been dissolved sat from November 2020 and ended its sitting in June 2025.
There were 393 Members of Parliament of which 264 are elected from constituencies and special seat councilors.
Many of the current legislators may not return to the house in November, with some retiring and others likely to lose in the parliamentary race.
Tulia Ackson Mwansasu has served as the Speaker of the National Assembly. She is legislator from Mbeya, in the Southern Highlands.
Tulia, though replacing Job Ndugai, is the second female Parliamentary Speaker, after Anna Makinda who is the predecessor of Mr Ndugai.
In 2023 Tulia has been elected president of the global Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).