Parliamentary elections in Niger 2011
The parliamentary elections in Niger 2011 took place on January 31, 2011, by-elections on May 15, 2011. The 113 members of the National Assembly of Niger were elected .
background
President Mamadou Tandja ( MNSD-Nassara ) was deposed on February 18, 2010 in a military coup. The new military junta , the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy under the leadership of Salou Djibo , suspended the constitution and dissolved the National Assembly. The junta promised a swift return to democratic conditions. A transitional parliament, the National Consulative Council, was set up and a new constitution was drawn up, which was adopted in the referendum on October 31, 2010 .
The parliamentary elections should take place on the same day as the presidential elections. The independent state electoral commission initially set the election date to January 3, 2011 and postponed it to January 31, 2011 after internal organizational and financial problems. Several candidate lists submitted for the parliamentary elections were rejected for organizational reasons and because of changed conditions for the right to stand : At least three quarters of the candidates on a list now had to have a high school diploma. Ultimately, 74 out of 141 lists submitted were approved. Some parties unsuccessfully called for the election to be postponed again. At a meeting of the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy with representatives of the major parties on January 24, 2011, it was decided to set January 31, 2011 as the election date in order not to jeopardize the timetable for the transfer of power from the military to democratically elected institutions.
Results
- PNDS Tarayya : 39
- MNSD-Nassara : 26
- MODEN-FA Lumana Africa : 23
- ANDP-Zaman Lahiya : 8
- RDP-Jama'a : 7
- UDR tabbat : 6
- CDS-Rahama : 3
- UNI : 1
Of 6,740,493 registered voters, 3,317,935 went to the polls. This corresponds to a turnout of 49.22%. 3,230,498 ballot papers were considered valid and 87,437 ballot papers were considered empty or invalid. Election day passed without major incidents. The EU and CEDEAO sent election observers . The EU declared the elections to be transparent and generally well conducted. The CEDEAO agreed with this view.
The Interim Constitutional Court published the results of the parliamentary elections on March 16, 2011 and ordered a repeat of the elections in the Agadez region , where six seats were to be allocated. These by-elections took place on May 15, 2011 and produced the following results in seats: PNDS-Tarayya 3, MODEN-FA Lumana Africa 2 and MNSD-Nassara 1.
In the table below, the information on the number of votes and the proportion of votes relates to the ballot on January 31, 2011, while the information on the seats also takes into account the result of the by-elections on May 15, 2011.
| Political party | Number of votes | Share of votes | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya) | 1,066,011 | 33.00% | 39 |
| National Development Society Movement (MNSD-Nassara) | 664.525 | 20.57% | 26th |
| Nigerien Democratic Movement for an African Federation (MODEN-FA Lumana Africa) | 637.108 | 19.72% | 23 |
| Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and Progress (ANDP-Zaman Lahiya) | 242,770 | 7.51% | 8th |
| Alliance for Democracy and Progress (RDP-Jama'a) | 209,622 | 6.49% | 7th |
| Union for Democracy and Republic (UDR-Tabbat) | 175,876 | 5.44% | 6th |
| Democratic and Social Assembly (CDS-Rahama) | 105,828 | 3.28% | 3 |
| National Union of Independents (UNI) | 32,018 | 0.99% | 1 |
| other | 96,740 | 3.00% | - |
| total | 3,230,498 | 100% | 113 |
consequences
Mahamadou Issoufou (PNDS-Tarayya) won the runoff election in the presidential election on March 21, 2011. He took his oath of office on April 8, 2011. As announced, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy surrendered its power to the democratically elected institutions. On April 19, 2011, the former Prime Minister Hama Amadou (MODEN-FA Lumana Africa) was elected President of the National Assembly. On April 21, 2011, President Issoufou appointed the new government with Brigi Rafini (PNDS-Tarayya) as Prime Minister.
literature
- Virginie Baudais, Enrico Sborgi: The general elections in Niger, January – March 2011 . In: Electoral Studies . Vol. 31 (2), 2012, ISSN 0261-3794 , pp. 453–458 , doi : 10.1016 / j.electstud.2012.02.002 .
Web links
- IPU PARLINE database: NIGER (Assemblée nationale), Last elections . Inter-Parliamentary Union (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ IPU PARLINE database: NIGER (National Assembly), Last election. Inter-Parliamentary Union, accessed November 15, 2013 .
- ↑ 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.
