The Suminwa government also known as the Suminwa cabinet was formed following the appointment by President Félix Tshisekedi of Judith Suminwa as the first female Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 1 April 2024.
[1] The government was named on 29 May and was invested by the National Assembly on 12 June more than five months after the 2023 general election.
This is the fourth government of Tshisekedi's presidency and the first of his second term.
[6][7][8][9] Nearly half the members, 26 to be precise, were freshly elected members of parliament, either as deputies or senators, when they joined the government.
In their case, article 110 of the Constitution took effect, and their parliamentary mandates are suspended while in government to be taken up by their substitutes.