Эсватини Сенаты: Парламенттің жоғарғы палатасы

Upper chamber of Swaziland's bicameral Parliament

The Senate of Eswatini is the upper chamber of the country's bicameral Parliament. The Senate may debate or pass a bill, with the exception of a "money bill", which must first be introduced in the lower chamber, the House of Assembly.

The Senate was established in 1967 when the Legislative Council was disbanded and bicameral legislature was established in the new constitution.

The Senate must not exceed 31 members, and currently numbers 30. Of these, at least eight of the 20 and at least five of the ten must be women. and in 2013, there were only ten.

Election is by secret ballot in a first past the post system of voting. Disqualifications are: being insolvent under any law without having been "rehabilitated", being of unsound mind, sentenced to death or more than six months in prison for a crime in Eswatini, a member of the country's armed forces or holding or acting in a public office without being granted a leave of absence to serve in the Senate, unqualified to be a voter, otherwise disqualified by law, found incompetent to hold public office, connected to a firm with a government contract and having not made the proper disclosures regarding the contract, or holding or acting in any office connected with the conduct of any election or the compilation or revision of any electoral register. Ngomuyayona Gamedze was chosen as Deputy President, also for the third consecutive time. Later in 2013, the Senate banned Members of Parliament from divorcing while in office to "avoid embarrassing the king."