Assemblée de l'Union (Assembly of the Union)

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

Voter requirements

• Comoran nationality
• age: at least 18 years old by 1 January of the election year
• registration on the voters' list
• residence in the country for at least six months prior to the elections.
• Persons enjoying civil rights

Candidates

Eligibility

• Qualified voters
• Comoran nationality
• age: at least 18 years old
• residence in Comoros for at least six months prior to the elections.

• Persons deprived of civil rights under the law
• Persons definitively barred from registering on the voters' list due to criminal charges or prison sentences
• Persons temporarily barred from registering unless a certain period passes after the end of the ban (twice more than the period they were barred from registering).
• Auditors general who relinquished their post within the three years prior to elections
• Persons exercising the following profession who relinquished the post within the six months prior to elections: judges, commanders of the armed forces, youth and sports supervisors, primary and secondary school and technical institute supervisors, director of the tax and customs office, labour inspectors, police officers, Comorians serving as civil servants of a foreign country.

Incompatibilities

• substitute members of the deputies
• President of the Republic
• members of the government
• members of other advisory organs stipulated in the Constitution
• judges
• municipal councillors
• civil servants of a foreign State
• international civil servants
• employees of the national enterprises
• head of enterprises receiving subsidies from the State
• Chairman and members of the Board of Directors of State-owned companies

Candidacy requirements

• deposit of 500,000 Comoran francs (about 1,500 Euros), reimbursable to candidates who obtain at least 10 per cent of the votes.

Appointment and term of office

Title

Term

• duration: 5 years (the same as the legislature)
• reasons for interruption of term: resignation, vote of non-confidence when requested, death, dissolution of the Assembly

Appointment

• elected by all members of the Assembly
• the election is held at the latest three days after the opening of the legislature's first sitting

Eligibility

• any member may be a candidate
• candidatures are filed at the opening of the first sitting

Voting system

• formal vote by secret ballot
• absolute majority at the first round, relative majority at the second round
• if no candidate wins an absolute majority at the first round, the two candidates who obtained the highest number of votes face off at a second round held the next day; the candidate winning the most votes is declared elected

Procedures / results

• the oldest member presides over the Assembly during the vote
• the two youngest members act as tellers
• the oldest member immediately announces the result
• any challenges are raised, discussed and settled immediately

Status

Status

• 2nd-highest ranking person in the State
• in the event of a vacancy, is replaced by one of the Deputy Speakers

Board

• the Assembly Board is governed by the Standing Orders
• it is made up of the Speaker, three Deputy Speakers, three questors and five secretaries
• all Board members except the Speaker of the Assembly are elected for one year
• it meets every Monday and may be convened in extraordinary session on the initiative of its members
• is a collegial body

Material facilities

• basic allowance of KMF 375,333
• special allowance of KMF 131,750
• housing allowance of KMF 375,000