Content_paragraphs:  In his address to the nation on 6 December, President Tshisekedi stressed the
  
  importance of the participation of women in public life and in the fight against sexual
  
  and gender-based violence, and impunity. This was welcomed by Congolese women’s
  
  organizations. Nevertheless, only two of the seven positions in the new permanent
  
  bureau of the National Assembly, the Quaestor and Deputy Rapporteur, are occupied
  
  by women. In the new permanent bureau of the Senate, women were elected to three
  
  of the seven positions: Quaestor, Deputy Quaestor and Deputy Rapporteur.