Parliamentary elections in Niger in 1999
The 1999 parliamentary elections in Niger took place on November 24, 1999. The 83 members of the National Assembly of Niger were elected .
background
President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara came to power in 1996 through a military coup . Most major parties boycotted the subsequent parliamentary elections in 1996 , in which the presidential party, the National Union of Independents for Democratic Renewal (UNIRD), won an absolute majority. Baré Maïnassara died on April 9, 1999 in a military coup that overthrew his Fourth Republic regime. The constitution of the Fifth Republic was adopted in the constitutional referendum on July 18, 1999 . Presidential and parliamentary elections were scheduled for October and November of the same year. In the presidential elections on October 17, 1999 , none of the candidates achieved an absolute majority. First place Mamadou Tandja from the National Development Society Movement (MNSD-Nassara) and runner-up Mahamadou Issoufou from the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarraya) faced a runoff that was held on the same day as the parliamentary elections: the 24th November 1999. More than 700 people and 19 parties competed for the 83 seats in the National Assembly .
Results
- MNSD-Nassara : 38
- CDS-Rahama : 17
- PNDS Tarayya : 16
- RDP-Jama'a : 8
- ANDP-Zaman Lahiya : 4
4,587,684 voters were registered for the elections. Election day was monitored by over 1,000 election observers. Among them were around 200 foreign election observers. Issaka Souna chaired the independent national electoral commission .
| Political party | Seats |
|---|---|
| National Development Society Movement (MNSD-Nassara) | 38 |
| Democratic and Social Assembly (CDS-Rahama) | 17th |
| Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya) | 16 |
| Alliance for Democracy and Progress (RDP-Jama'a) | 8th |
| Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and Progress (ANDP-Zaman Lahiya) | 4th |
| total | 83 |
The only woman among the 83 elected MPs was Aïssata Mounkaïla (MNSD-Nassara).
consequences
Mamadou Tandja, whose MNSD Nassara also received the most votes in the parliamentary elections, won the presidential election. On December 26, 1999, the former President Mahamane Ousmane (CDS-Rahama) was elected President of the National Assembly. On January 5, 2000, President Tandja appointed the first government of the Fifth Republic with Hama Amadou (MNSD-Nassara) as prime minister. The government included members of the MNSD-Nassara and the CDS-Rahama, as well as members of parties not represented in parliament such as the PUND-Salama and the UDFP-Sawaba , as well as non-party experts.
literature
- Amanda Di Lorenzo, Enrico Sborgi: The 1999 presidential and legislative elections in Niger . In: Electoral Studies . Vol. 20 (3), 2001, ISSN 0261-3794 , pp. 470-476 , doi : 10.1016 / S0261-3794 (00) 00020-2 .
Web links
- Niger: Parliamentary elections Assemblée nationale, 1999 . Inter-Parliamentary Union (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 230-231 .
- ↑ a b Niger: Parliamentary elections Assemblée nationale, 1996. Inter-Parliamentary Union, accessed on November 15, 2013 (English).
- ^ Composition sociologique du Parlement nigérien (issu des élections législatives de novembre 99) . In: La Revue législative . Publication de l'Assemblée nationale du Niger, en partenariat avec le NDI. No. 1 . Niamey February 2003, p. 38 ( PDF file [accessed November 29, 2015]). PDF file ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Alice J. Kang: Bargaining for Women's Rights. Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2015, ISBN 978-1-4529-4427-2 , pp. 104-105 .
- ↑ Historique. Assemblée nationale, October 7, 2011, archived from the original on May 15, 2013 ; Retrieved November 15, 2013 (French).
- ↑ Les gouvernements du Niger. (No longer available online.) In: IZF.net. Association IZF, archived from the original on November 11, 2013 ; Retrieved November 15, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
