sentences:  After a four-year interlude between two constitutions, with new political institutions established at the various levels of government, as well as new administrative divisions for the provinces throughout the country, a new constitution came into effect in 2006 and politics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo finally settled into a stable presidential democratic republic.The 2003 transitional constitution had established a parliament with a bicameral legislature, consisting of a Senate and a National Assembly.The Senate had, among other things, the charge of drafting the new constitution of the country.