The role of Members Members have several roles to play, and their individual styles depend not only on their personality, experience and training, but also on whether they belong to the Government or the Opposition, their rank in the party and the region they represent.
Members are primarily active in the legislative process.
Their role as legislators involves examining, analysing and voting on bills tabled before the National Assembly as they go through the various stages in the House and the parliamentary committees . Secondly, Members have various means at their disposal, both in the House and in the parliamentary committees, to supervise the actions of the Government. Third, Members act as intermediaries between electors and the public administration. Members must be continually aware of the needs of their fellow citizens, and must divide their time between parliamentary and constituency duties. Since the National Assembly belongs to a number of international parliamentary associations , Members are called upon to take part from time to time in missions to discuss sociocultural, economic and other matters with fellow parliamentarians.