Mpanzu Bamenga was elected as Rapporteur at the 2026 Annual Session in The Hague.

He has served in the Dutch House of Representatives since 2023 as a member of the Democrats 66 (D66) party. Previously, he served on the Municipal Council of Eindhoven from 2014 to 2018 and again from 2021 to 2022.

Bamenga serves on the parliamentary Committees on the Interior, Kingdom Relations, European Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development, Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature, and Infrastructure and Water Management, as well as the Contact Group France. He is his party's spokesperson on foreign trade, development cooperation, discrimination, integration, infrastructure, and environmental affairs.

He has also introduced legislative proposals aimed at prohibiting racial profiling in fraud detection and criminal investigations.