People's Assembly (Abkhazia)

**People's Assembly (Abkhazia)**
Basic data
Seat:	Sukhum
Legislative period :	five years
First session:	1990
MPs:	35
Current legislative period
Last choice:	May 31, 2009
Chair:	Valery Bganba
	Website
	parliamentra.org

The People's Assembly ( Abkhazian Аҧсны Жәлар Реизара / Abhasnji Tseljap Reizara , Russian Народное Собрание / Narodnoje Sobranije ) is the parliament of the Republic of Abkhazia, which is internationally recognized by only a few countries .

The People's Assembly is a unicameral parliament , whose 35 members are elected for five years. The election is based on majority voting . To achieve a parliamentary mandate, a candidate must receive more than 50% of the votes cast in his constituency. If no candidate reaches the required majority in a constituency, a runoff election takes place in which the two candidates who received the most votes stand for election again.

Parliamentary President from 2002 to 2012 was Nugsar Aschuba , his successor is Valeri Bganba . A frequent criticism of the composition of the parliament is that the national minorities (mainly Russians , Georgians and Armenians ) are not represented according to their demographic share in the population of Abkhazia.

composition

After the elections on March 4, 2007, the people's assembly was composed as follows:

Parties		Seats
Presidential block	Ajtajra (resurrection)	28
	Amzachara
	Apzny Aksaara (Some Abkhazia)
Others	Forum of Unity of the Abkhazian People	7th
	Communist Party of Abkhazia
	Russian Citizens' Union
total		35

Web links

Description of the National Assembly on the Abkhaz President's website (in Russian)
Abkhazia Electoral Law (Russian)