Bureau of the Pan-African Parliament

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The Bureau of the Pan-African Parliament is the essential leadership of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), consisting of one President and four Vice-Presidents.

The President and each Vice-President represent a different region of Africa. The current members of the Bureau are:^[1]

• Acting President –Hon. Ashebir Gayo from Ethiopia
• Third Vice-President – Hon. Lucia Passos from Cape Verde

The Bureau is responsible for:

• The management and administration of the affairs and facilities of Parliament and its organs.
• Regulating the procedures relating to the financial, organisational and administrative needs in accordance with Financial Rules of the AU and matters concerning Members and the internal organisation of Parliament and its organs.
• Determining the draft agenda and the programmes of the sessions of Parliament.
• Determining the establishment, plan and structure of the Secretariat and lay down regulations for the staff, including their terms and conditions of service.
• Proposing to Parliament for adoption the establishment and job descriptions of its support staff.
• Proposing, to the Pan African Parliament, the appointment of the Clerk and Deputy Clerks to Parliament.
• The preparation of the draft budget and its presentation to the responsible Committee.
• Coordinating and harmonising the functions of Permanent Committees.
• Any other matters in accordance with the directives issued by Parliament.

Carrying out any other functions as may be prescribed by Parliament or incidental to these functions.

No.	Image	President	Took office	Left office	State	Party
1		Gertrude Mongella Mongella Bureau	May 2004	May 2009	Tanzania	Chama cha Mapinduzi
2		Idriss Ndele Moussa Moussa Bureau	May 2009	28 May 2012	Chad	Patriotic Salvation Movement
3		Bethel Nnaemeka Amadi Amadi Bureau	28 May 2012	27 May 2015	Nigeria	People's Democratic Party
4		Roger Nkodo Dang	27 May 2015	1 March 2021	Cameroon	Cameroon People's Democratic Movement

No.	Mandate	Eastern Africa	Central Africa	Western Africa	Northern Africa	Southern Africa
1	2004–2009	Gertrude Mongella  Tanzania	Elise Loum  Chad	Jerome Sacca Kina Guezere (2004–2005)  Benin Theophile Nata (2005–2009)  Benin	Mohammed Lutfi Farhat  Libya	Fernando Dias Van-Dúnem  Angola
2	2009–2012	Mary Mugyenyi (2009–2011)  Uganda Francoise Labelle (2011–2012)  Mauritius	Idriss Ndele Moussa  Chad	Bethel Nnaemeka Amadi  Nigeria	Laroussi Hammi  Algeria	Joram Macdonald Gumbo  Zimbabwe
3	2012–2015	Juliana Kantengwa  Rwanda	Roger Nkodo Dang  Cameroon	Bethel Nnaemeka Amadi  Nigeria	Moustafa El Gendy  Egypt	Loide L. Kasingo  Namibia
4	2015–2018	Ashebir W. Gayo  Ethiopia	Roger Nkodo Dang  Cameroon	Bernadette Lahai  Sierra Leone	Suilma Hay Emhamed Saleh  Western Sahara	Eduardo Joaquim Mulembwe  Mozambique
5	2018–present	Stephen Masele  Tanzania	Roger Nkodo Dang  Cameroon	Haidra Cisse  Mali	Bouras Djamel  Algeria	Chief F. Z. Charumbira  Zimbabwe

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