This post discusses the national assembly which is also the lower house of Sudan , it also list out the speakers of the assembly.
The National Assemblyis the lower house of the National Legislature of Sudan. The Legislature was unicameral until 2005. The upper house is the Council of States.
The National Assembly was dissolved on 11 April 2019 following a military coup which overthrew Sudan President Omar al-Bashir and Assembly’s ruling National Congress Party.
As part of the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy, a Transitional Legislative Council is to be formed which will function as the legislature of Sudan until elections scheduled for 2022.
2015-2019 SESSION
Sudan was previously in a transitional period following the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) on 9 January 2005 that officially ended the civil war between the Sudanese Government (based in Khartoum) and the southern-based Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) rebel group. The National Assembly consisted of 450 appointed members who represent the government, former rebels, and other opposition political parties. The National Assembly, whose members were appointed in mid-2005, replaced the latest elected parliament. All members of the National Legislature serve six-year terms. Article 117 of the Interim Constitution called for the 450 members of the National Assembly to be appointed according to the following power-sharing formula.
PARLIAMENT BUILDING
The seat of the National Assembly is Omdurman, immediately north-west of the country’s capital Khartoum. The building was designed in the style of brutalist architecture by the Romanian architect Cezar Lăzărescu and completed in 1978.It is located on the banks of the White Nile at the confluence with the Blue Nile near the old Omdurman Bridge.
SPEAKERS
Hassan Abdallah al-Turabi was the speaker from 1996 until he stripped of the post in December 1999, and placed under arrest after a falling out with President Omar al-Bashir.
| Position | Name | Took office | Left office |
| President of the Assembly | Muhammad Salih Shingitti | 1948 | 1953 |
| Speaker of the upper house, Senate | Ahmed Mohamed Yassin | 1954 | 1956 |
| Speaker of the upper house, Senate | Mohammed El Hassan Diab | 1956 | 1957 |
| Speaker of the lower house, House of Representatives | Babiker Awadalla | 1954 | 1957 |
| Speaker of the lower house, House of Representatives | Muhammad Salih Shingitti | 1957 | November 1958 |
| Speaker of the upper house, Senate | Amin al-Sayed | 1957 | November 1958 |
| President of Central Council | Awad Abdel Rahman Sghir | 1962 | 1964 |
| Chairman, first constituent assembly | Mubarak Fadel Shaddad | 1965 | 1965 |
| Chairman, second constituent assembly | Mubarak Fadel Shaddad | 1968 | 1969 |
| Chairman, people’s assembly | Alnadhir Dafeallah | 1972 | 1973 |
| Chairman, people’s assembly | Rashid Bakr | 1974 | 1976 |
| Chairman, people’s assembly | Abu al-Qasim Hashim | 1976 | 1980 |
| Chairman, people’s assembly | Rashid Bakr | 1980 | 1981 |
| Chairman, fifth people’s assembly | Izz al-Din al-Sayed Mohammed | 1982 | 1985 |
| Chairman, constituent assembly | Mohamed Ibrahim Khalil | 1986 | 1988 |
| Chairman, constituent assembly | Mohamed Yousef Mohamed | 1988 | 1989 |
| Chairman, constituent assembly | Farouk Ali Al-Barir | 12 April 1989 | 30 June 1989 |
| Chairman, National Transitional Council | Mohamed Al-Amin Khalifa | 1992 | 1996 |
| Speaker, National Assembly | Hassan Al-Turabi | 1996 | December 1999 |
| Dissolved | December 1999 | December 2000 | |
| Speaker, National Assembly | Ahmed Ibrahim al-Tahir | 2001 | 31 August 2005 |
| Speaker, National Assembly | Ahmed Ibrahim al-Tahir | 31 August 2005 | November 2013 |
| Speaker, National Assembly | Fatih Ezzedine al-Mansur | November 2013 | 1 June 2015 |
| Speaker, National Assembly | Ibrahim Ahmed Omer Ahmed | 1 June 2015 | 11 April 2019 |