Composition
The current National Assembly, formed following elections held on 4 December 2004, has 113 members, elected for a five-year term, 105 members elected in multi-seat constituencies and 8 members elected in single-seat national minority constituencies. The multi-seat constituency members are elected using a party-list (Scrutin du liste) proportional representation system. For these seats, political parties must attain at least 5% of the vote in order to gain a seat in the legislature. The remaining eight seats are single constituency, elected by a first-past-the-post system. One element of the Judiciary of Niger, the High Court of Justice, is composed of Deputies elected from within the National Assembly. Fourteen women occupy seats in the National Assembly.
Former President of Niger and leader of CDS-Rahama, Mahamane Ousmane, was the President of the National Assembly from 1999 to 2009.
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