Assemblée Nationale

Parliament name (generic / translated)

Structure of parliament

Leadership

President

Secretary General

Composition

Members (statutory / current number)

Women (current number)

Mode of designation

Term

Last renewal dates

Legal Framework

Electoral law

Mode of designation

Voting system

• absolute majority vote in two rounds in the 25 single-member constituencies
• party-list system in the 34 multi-member constituencies. Each list bears two to five names. Any list which obtains the absolute majority of votes in a constituency is awarded all the seats therein. In a contrary case, seats are distributed proportionately according to the votes obtained by each list. Remaining seats are allocated according to the highest average formula.

Voter requirements

• age: 18 years
• Chadian citizenship
• full possession of civil and political rights
• disqualifications: insanity, criminal conviction, undischarged bankrupts, contempt of court, prison sentence of at least two months for certain offences

Candidates

Eligibility

• age: 25 years
• Chadian citizenship
• residence in country for at least one year
• ability to read and write French or Arabic
• ineligibility: persons under guardianship, those having acquired Chadian nationality in the last 10 years

Incompatibilities

• Some senior officials, members of the armed forces or administrators who laid down their office in the district in which they are standing for election less than six months previously

Candidacy requirements

• presentation by the political parties by means of lists of candidates containing as many names as there are seats to be filled in each district
• deposit of CFA 250,000 reimbursed if the candidates obtains at least 10% of the votes cast in the constituency.

Appointment and term of office

Title

Term

• duration: 4 years (term of House)
• reasons for interruption of the term: resignation, death, dissolution

Appointment

• elected by all the Members of the National Assembly (quorum : 2/3)
• election is held at the first meeting of the newly elected Assembly or when a vacancy occurs
• after the roll-call of the Deputies

Eligibility

• any Deputy can be a candidate
• candidatures must be deposited at least one hour before the election

Voting system

• formal vote by secret ballot
• absolute majority in the first round, relative majority in the second round

Procedures / results

• the eldest Deputy presides over the Assembly during the voting
• the two secretaries of the provisional Board composed by the eldest Members oversee the voting, with the help of two Deputies appointed by the Assembly
• the eldest Deputy announces the results without any delay

Status

Status

• represents the Assembly with the public authorities
• in the absence of the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker (by order of rank) can assume his/her role and functions

Board

• consists of the President, four Vice Presidents, four Secretaries, a Quaestor and a Deputy-Quaestor

Material facilities

• the President has a Cabinet composed of a principal private Secretary, a Chargé de Mission, a private Secretary, three technical advisers, an executive Secretary, typist, three Secretary agents including a aide de camp, two protocol officers, two press officers, two divers and a orderly.