This post discusses the national assembly of Senegal from the early times and also the current assembly, it also lists the historical election result of the assembly.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
The National Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale) is the unicameral legislature of Senegal. The Assembly was previously part of a bicameral legislature from 1999 to 2001 and from 2007 to 2012, with the indirectly elected Senate being the upper house. The Senate was abolished for a second time in September 2012.
The National Assembly is competent in matters of legislative initiative. The Government is preparing bills and parliamentary legislative proposals. The proposed law is necessarily deposited on the Bureau of the Assembly of the Parliamentary proponent. Legislative proposals are distributed to members at least ten days prior to consideration by the relevant committee. Law proposals are, after examination by the Bureau for the purposes of admissibility, communicated to the President of the Republic shall give its opinion to the President of the National Assembly within ten days after their transmission. The law, once adopted, is sent forthwith by the President of the National Assembly to the President of the Republic for enactment. Parliament shall also finance laws of the projects in accordance with an organic law.
Read: POLITICAL HISTORY OF SENEGAL
Parliament has sixty days to vote finances of the draft laws. The President of the National Assembly and other officers are elected for a term of one year. They may be reelected. The mandates of the President and other officers of the National Assembly are renewed at the first meeting of the regular session. • • Parliamentary Groups • A parliamentary group is an association of parliamentarians coming together according to their political choices in a Parliament chamber. The group constitution allows elected members who are to benefit from certain advantages (speaking time vice presidential commissions, for example).
Read: PAST PRESIDENTS OF SENEGAL TILL DATE
According to the rules of procedure of the National Assembly, members can organize themselves into groups, political affinities: no group can comprise less than ten members, not including related deputies, as provided in paragraph 2 of Article 23 “no member may be part of only one parliamentary group is prohibited group formation for the defense of special interests Currently, the national Assembly has two parliamentary groups..” Bennoo Bokk Yaakaar “(117 deputies), “Liberal” (12 deputies) and 11 nonmembers. • • Non-attached Members • Non-attached Members are members who are not members or related to a parliamentary group of the National Assembly. But their designated representative participates in the work of the Conference of Presidents, by rotation determined on a consensual basis. They can also be likened to a group of their choice. But for that, they should write to the Chairman of the group concerned shall inform the President of the National Assembly, which informs the Bureau and the Assembly.
THE CURRENT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
The current National Assembly, formed following elections in July 2017, comprises 165 elected members who serve five-year terms. The electoral system is a mixed member majoritarian (MMM) system; 90 deputies are elected in 35 single and multi-member districts (departments) by simple majority (plurality) party block vote (PBV, winning party list takes all seats in the district) and 60 seats are filled proportionally based on the national distribution of votes. There are also 15 seats for overseas voters. Voters have a single ballot and vote for the party list. This single ballot is applied to both the majoritarian and proportional vote counts.
HISTORICAL NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTION RESULTS
| Political Party/coalition | Election Year | |||||||
| 1963 | 1968 | 1973 | 1978 | 1983 | 1988 | 1993 | 1998 | |
| Senegalese Progressive Union (UPS) (note 2) |
80 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Socialist Party of Senegal (PS) | – | 80 | 100 | 83 | 111 | 103 | 84 | 93 |
| Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) | – | – | – | 17 | 08 | 17 | 27 | 23 |
| National Democratic Rally (RND) | – | – | – | – | 01 | – | – | 01 |
| Democratic League – Movement for the Labour Party (LD-MPT) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 03 | 03 |
| Let Us Unite Senegal (JLS) (note 3) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 03 | – |
| Party of Independence and Work (PIT) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 02 | 01 |
| Senegalese Democratic Union-Renewal (UDS-R) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 01 | 01 |
| Union for Democratic Renewal (URD) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11 |
| And-Jëf-African Party for Democracy and Socialism (AJ-PADS) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 04 |
| Convention of Democrats and Patriots-Garab Gi (CDP-Garab Gi) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 01 |
| Front for Socialism and Democracy/Benno Jubël (FSD-BJ) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 01 |
| Gaïndé Centrist Bloc (BGC) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 01 |
| Total | 80 | 80 | 100 | 100 | 120 | 120 | 120 | 140 |