The Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (Laotian: ພັກປະຊາຊົນປະຕິວັດລາວ) is a communist party that has governed Laos since 1975. The policy-making organs are the Politburo Secretariat and the Central Committee. A party congress which elects members to the politburo and central committee is held every five years. The congress used to also elect a secretariat but this body was abolished in 1991. In 2007 113 of the 115 members of the National Assembly of Laos were from the LPRP.