National Assembly (France) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 19/12/2018

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National Assembly (France)


00:01:46 1 Relationships with the executive
00:04:50 2 Elections
00:07:36 3 Conditions and privileges of members
00:08:40 3.1 Accumulation of mandates and minimum age
00:10:10 4 Current legislature
00:10:20 4.1 Parliamentary groups
00:10:29 4.2 Bureau of the National Assembly
00:10:38 4.3 Presidencies of committees
00:10:48 5 Members
00:11:18 6 See also
00:11:38 7 Notes and references
00:11:47 8 External links



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SUMMARY
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The National Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale; pronounced [asɑ̃ble nasjɔnal]) is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (Sénat). The National Assembly's members are known as députés (French pronunciation: ​[depyˈte]; 'delegate' or 'envoy' in English; the word is an etymological cognate of the English word 'deputy').
There are 577 députés, each elected by a single-member constituency through a two-round voting system. Thus, 289 seats are required for a majority. The assembly is presided over by a president (currently François de Rugy), normally from the largest party represented, assisted by vice-presidents from across the represented political spectrum. The term of the National Assembly is five years; however, the President of the Republic may dissolve the Assembly (thereby calling for new elections) unless it has been dissolved in the preceding twelve months. This measure is becoming rarer since the 2000 referendum reduced the presidential term from seven to five years: a President usually has a majority elected in the Assembly two months after the presidential election, and it would be useless for him/her to dissolve it for those reasons.
Following a tradition started by the first National Assembly during the French Revolution, the "left-wing" parties sit to the left as seen from the president's seat, and the "right-wing" parties sit to the right, and the seating arrangement thus directly indicates the political spectrum as represented in the Assembly. The official seat of the National Assembly is the Palais Bourbon on the banks of the river Seine; the Assembly also uses other neighbouring buildings, including the Immeuble Chaban-Delmas on the rue de l'Université. It is guarded by Republican Guards.