National People's Assembly (Algeria)

National People's Assembly (Algeria)
Coat of arms of the National People's Assembly	Parliament building
Basic data
Seat:	Algiers
Legislative period :	five years
First session:	20th September 1962
MPs:	462
Current legislative period
Last choice:	4th May 2017
Chair:	President Slimane Chenine
Distribution of seats:
Website
www.apn.dz

The National People's Assembly ( Arabic المجلس الشعبي الوطني, DMG al-Maǧlis aš-Šaʿbī al-Waṭanī ; French Assemblé populaire nationale ) is the lower house of the Parliament of Algeria . The National Assembly consists of 462 members who are directly elected by the population for five years. Of these, 8 seats are reserved for Algerian citizens living abroad .

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The first parliamentary elections for independent Algeria took place on September 20, 1962. The then unicameral parliament was elected for a period of one year and served as the constituent assembly. In October 1963, President Ahmed Ben Bella disempowered them . As a result of the 1965 revolution, legislative power under Article 126 of the new constitution was transferred to the Revolutionary Council. The National People's Assembly was not restored until the new constitution was passed in 1976. Until 1991, the National Liberation Front (FLN) dominated parliament as the Algerian constitution of 1976 defined the FLN as the preferred Algerian political party.

When the first multi-party elections were due to take place in 1991, there were signs of a victory for the Islamists, whereupon the national armed forces of the Algerian people canceled the elections. The National Advisory Council was set up from April 1992 to May 1994 as a substitute donor. The National Transitional Council then took over legislative power.

In 1996 a new constitution introduced a bicameral system for mutual control of power. This consists of the National People's Assembly with 389 members at the time and the National Council with 144 members. On June 5, 1997, the first elections to the new parliament finally took place.

Electoral system

The National People's Assembly consists of 462 MPs who are elected in 48 multi-person constituencies corresponding to the wilayas (prefectures) of the country. Each constituency is assigned a number of seats based on its population: one seat per 80,000 inhabitants plus one seat for each remaining segment of 40,000 inhabitants with at least four seats per constituency.

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Plenary Chamber of the National People's Assembly

Free parliamentary elections took place in May 1997, 2002, 2007 , 2012 and 2017. Every Algerian citizen who has reached the age of 18 is entitled to vote.

In the last elections in 2017, a total of 11,315 candidates (7,679 men and 3,636 women) ran for election.

The National Liberation Front party (FLN) became the strongest force with 161 seats and formed a social-liberal coalition with the National Democratic Collection (RND) , which could achieve 100 seats. The proportion of women is 25.8%.

On February 19, 2021, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced the dissolution of the National Assembly and its early election. The next elections were originally scheduled for May 2022. The election will take place on June 12, 2021.

Compositions

Composition according to legislative periods

Legislature	choice	composition	President of Parliament	Ruling parties
Constituent Assembly	1962		September 1962 to August 1963: Ferhat Abbas August 1963 to June 1965: Hadj Mohamed Benalla	FLN (196) 100%
I.	1964			FLN (136) 100%
1965-1976 the legislative power lay with the Revolutionary Council
II	1977		March 1977 to October 1990: Rabah Bitat October 1990 to January 1992: Abdelaziz Belkhadem	FLN (272) 100%
III	1982			FLN (282) 100%
III	1987			FLN (295) 100%
New constitution in 1996 with a multi-party system
IV	1997		June 5, 1997 to June 10, 2002: Abdelkader Bensalah (RND)	RND (156) MSP (69) FLN (62) 62.1% of seats
V	2002		June 10, 2002 to June 3, 2004: Karim Younès (FLN) June 23, 2004 to May 30, 2007: Amar Saidani (FLN)	FLN (199) MRN (43) RND (49) 74.8% of the seats
VI	2007		May 30, 2007 to May 26, 2012: Abdelaziz Ziari (FLN)	FLN (136) RND (62) MSP (52) 64.3% of the seats
VII	2012		May 26, 2012 to May 23, 2017: Mohamed Larbi Ould Khelifa (FLN)	RND (70) FLN (221) 63% of seats
VIII	2017		May 26, 2012 to May 23, 2017: Mohamed Larbi Ould Khelifa (FLN) May 23, 2017 to October 24, 2018: Said Bouhadja (FLN) October 24, 2018 to July 2, 2019: Mouad Bouchareb (FLN) July 2, 2019 to July 10, 2019: Abderrazak Terbeche (FLN), acting	RND (100) FLN (161) 56.5% of the vote
VIII	2017		since July 10, 2019: Slimane Chenine (El Bina)	RND (97) FLN (164) FM (14) TAJ (19) Mouvement populaire algérien (13) ANR (8) 68.2% of the seats

National consultative assembly (Conseil consultatif national)

• from January 1992 to January 1994: Redha Malek

National transition assembly (Conseil national de transition)

• from May 1994 to May 1997: Abdelkader Bensalah

Web links

• Official website of the National People's Assembly of Algeria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Description of Parliament , website of the Algerian Embassy in Iran, accessed May 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b} IPU PARLINE database: ALGERIA (Al-Majlis Al-Chaabi Al-Watani), Last elections. Retrieved February 19, 2021 . 
3. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2021-02/algerien-parlament-neuwahlen-abdelmadjid-tebboune-wandel
4. ↑ https://www.radioalgerie.dz/news/fr/article/20210311/208422.html