Source: http://archive.ipu.org/parline/reports/2131.htm
Timestamp: 2018-11-12 23:20:20
Document Index: 199580955

Matched Legal Cases: ['Art. 57', 'Art. 49', 'Art. 49', 'Art. 154', 'Art. 6', 'Art. 6', 'Art. 92', 'Art. 131', 'Art. 141', 'Art. 51', 'Art. 52', 'Art. 48', 'Art. 50', 'Art. 52', 'Art. 48', 'Art. 52', 'Art. 48', 'Art. 52', 'Art. 48', 'Art. 52', 'Art. 48', 'Art. 49', 'Art. 52', 'Art. 48', 'Art. 49', 'Art. 93', 'Art. 92', 'Art. 50', 'Art. 69', 'Art. 54', 'Art. 55', 'Art. 56', 'Art. 56', 'Art. 66', 'Art. 56', 'Art. 69', 'Art. 66', 'Art. 66', 'Art. 69', 'Art. 69', 'Art. 50', 'Art. 50', 'Art. 51', 'Art. 53', 'Art. 62', 'Art. 55', 'Art. 56', 'Art. 66', 'Art. 50', 'Art. 51', 'Art. 53', 'Art. 3']

﻿ IPU PARLINE database: GUINEA (Assemblée nationale), Full text
Affiliation date(s) 1996 - 2007
President Claude Kory Kondiano (M)
Notes Elected on 13 Jan. 2014.
Secretary General Mohamed Bérété (M)
Notes Appointed on 10 March 2014.
Members (statutory / current number) 114 / 114 PERCENTAGE OF WOMEN
Women (current number) 25 (21.93%)
Mode of designation directly elected 114
Last renewal dates 28 September 2013
Phone (224 30) 41 28 04
41 11 18
Fax (224 30) 41 28 48
E-mail assemblenationaleguine@yahoo.fr
Electoral law 23 December 1991
Constituencies - 38 single-member, corresponding to the country's communes
- nation as whole for remaining 76 members
Voting system Mixed: Mixed system:
- 38 Deputies are elected by simple majority in single-member constituencies
- 76 Deputies are chosen by proportional representation and using a national electoral quotient (votes cast divided by 76) from a national list of candidates.
Seats left unfilled after this process are awarded to those having obtained the most votes.
- Guinean citizenship
- guinean citizenship (or 10 years after nationalization if residence in country since then)
- ineligibility: guardianship, insanity, conviction of crime or other offence
Incompatibilities - members of the armed forces
- certain local public officials
- membership of the Economic and Social Council
- all non-elective public functions
- executives of public or State-controlled (firms)
Candidacy requirements - by political parties
Timing and scope of renewal According to the official results, President Alpha Condé's Rally of the Guinean People (RPG) Rainbow came in first, winning 53 seats in the 114-member National Assembly. Its allies took seven seats. Two opposition parties led by former prime ministers came in third and fourth: The Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG) of Mr. Mamadou Cellou Dalein Diallo took 37 seats and the Union of Republican Forces (UFR) of Mr. Sidya Touré, took 10. Other opposition parties took seven seats. The opposition forces rejected the result of the poll. International observers, including UN, EU, and Ecowas, said "breaches and irregularities were observed in a certain number of constituencies.
Political Group Total of seats Majority Proportional
Appointment - elected by all the Deputies who are present
Eligibility - any Deputy may be a candidate
- candidatures must be deposited at least one hour before the election
- absolute majority in the first round, relative majority in the second round, in the event of a tie in the second round : the oldest candidate is elected
Procedures / results - the eldest Deputy presides over the Assembly during the voting
Status - in the absence of the Speaker, the Deputy Speakers (by order of their rank) can assume his/her role and functions
Board - consists of the Speaker, four Deputy Speakers, four Secretaries and two Queastors
- members of the Board (apart from the Speaker) are elected for one year (renewable)
Organization of parliamentary business - convenes sessions, within the framework of the Conference of Presidents
- establishes and modifies the agenda, within the framework of the Conference of Presidents
Special powers - is responsible for establishing the budget
- the Board has :
* full powers to organise and run, within the framework of Standing Orders, the Assembly's Departments
Speaking and voting rights, other functions - takes the floor in legislative debates, provided that he leaves his/her seat and does not resume it until the debate has ended
Nature of the mandate · Free representation (Art. 57 of the Fundamental Law of 23.12.1990)
Start of the mandate · When the MPs take the oath
Validation of mandates · Validation by the Supreme Court (Art. 49 and 83 (3) of the Fundamental Law)
· Procedure (Art. 49 of the Fundamental Law, Art. 154 to 156 of the Electoral Code)
End of the mandate · On the day when the newly elected Parliament meets
Can MPs resign? Yes · Yes, of their own free will (Art. 6 (1) of the Fundamental Law)
· Procedure (Art. 6 of the Fundamental Law)
· Authority competent to accept the resignation: the National Assembly
Can MPs lose their mandate ? Yes (a)	Definitive exclusion from Parliament by the latter: loss for non-attendance of plenary sittings (Art. 92 of the Standing Orders)
(b)	Loss of mandate by judicial decision:
- Loss for ineligibility (Art. 131 of the Electoral Code)
- Loss for incompatibility (Art. 141 of the Electoral Code)
- Loss for high treason, or in case of a fragrante delicto crime or prosecution authorised by the National Assembly once the sentence is final
Rank in hierarchy · Outside Parliament: the official order of precedence ranks the President of the National Assembly in the 2nd position
· Basic salary (Art. 51 (1) of the Fundamental Law):
+ Sessional allowance:
+ Duty allowance (Board members, leaders of parliamentary groups, Committee chairpersons and rapporteurs)
(a)	Secretariat:
(b)	Assistants:
(c)	Official car for Board members
(d)	Security guards
(e)	Postal and telephone services
(f)	Travel and transport
Parliamentary immunity - parliamentary non-accountability · The concept exists (Art. 52 (1) of the Fundamental Law, Art. 48 (1) of the Standing Orders).
· Derogations: offence and insult (Art. 50 (6), 52 and 55 (1) of the Standing Orders, see Discipline)
Parliamentary immunity - parliamentary inviolability · The concept exists (Art. 52 (2) and (3) of the Fundamental Law, Art. 48 (2) and (3) of the Standing Orders).
· It applies (only) to (criminal) (civil) proceedings, covers all offences (with the exception of ...) and protects MPs (only ...) from arrest and from being held in preventive custody, from the opening of judicial proceedings against them and from their homes being searched.
- when Parliament is in session, prosecution or arrest in criminal matters is possible in cases of flagrante delicto (Art. 52 (2) of the Fundamental Law, Art. 48 (2) of the Standing Orders)
- when Parliament is in recess, arrest or detention is possible in cases of flagrante delicto, prosecution authorised by the Assembly or final sentencing (Art. 52 (3) of the Fundamental Law, Art. 48 (3) of the Standing Orders).
· Protection is provided from the start to the end of the mandate. It does not also cover judicial proceedings instituted against MPs before their election.
· Parliamentary immunity (inviolability) can be lifted (Art. 52 (2) and (3) of the Fundamental Law, Art. 48 (2) and (3) of the Standing Orders):
- Competent authority: the National Assembly; the Board (for arrest or detention when Parliament is not in session)
- Procedure (Art. 49 of the Standing Orders). In this case, MPs can be heard. They do (not) have means of appeal.
· Parliament can(not) subject the prosecution and/or detention to the condition of ... (to certain conditions) (:)
- Competent authority:
- Procedure :
· Parliament can suspend the prosecution and/or detention of one of its members (Art. 52 (4) of the Fundamental Law, Art. 48 (4) of the Standing Orders):
- Procedure (Art. 49 of the Standing Orders).
· It is provided by NGOs, foundations, international organisations, inter-parliamentary co-operation, etc.
Participation in the work of the Parliament · It is compulsory for MPs to be present at plenary sittings and committee meetings (for leave, see Art. 93 of the Standing Orders).
· Penalties foreseen in case of failure to fulfil this obligation (Art. 92 of the Standing Orders): loss of mandate
Discipline · The rules governing discipline within Parliament are contained in Art. 50 (4) to (6), 51 (5), 52 to 56, 62, 64, 66 (5) to (7), and Art. 69 (1) of the Standing Orders.
· Disciplinary measures foreseen (Art. 54 of the Standing Orders):
- Call to order (Art. 55, 66 (6) and 69 (1) of the Standing Orders)
- Call to order with entry in the record (Art. 56 (1) and (3), 66 (7) and 69 (1) of the Standing Orders)
- Entry in the record with censure and prohibition on taking the floor (Art. 56 (1) and (4), Art. 66 (7) of the Standing Orders)
- Temporary expulsion for not more than 24 hours (Art. 56 (1) (2) (5) and (6) and Art. 69 (1) of the Standing Orders)
- Warning for irrelevance (Art. 66 (6) and 69 (1) of the Standing Orders)
- Deletion of comments from the record (Art. 66 (5) and (6) and 69 (1) of the Standing Orders)
- Point of order (Art. 69 (1) of the Standing Orders)
- Withdrawal of the floor (Art. 69 (1) of the Standing Orders)
- Offence or insult (Art. 50 (6), 52 and 55 (1) of the Standing Orders): call to order, call to order with entry on the record, entry on the record with censure and prohibition on taking the floor, temporary expulsion for not more than 24 hours, three months' imprisonment and/or a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 Guinean francs
- Disturbance (Art. 50 (4) to (6) of the Standing Orders): expulsion from the meeting room, arrest, drawing-up of a record and referral to the Public Prosecutor, three months' imprisonment and/or fine of 10,000 to 50,000 Guinean francs
- Noisy signs of approval or disapproval (Art. 51 (5) of the Standing Orders): expulsion
- Uproar (Art. 53 of the Standing Orders): suspension or lifting of the sitting
· Competent body to judge such cases/to impose penalties (Art. 62 (1) of the Standing Orders):
- Call to order, warning for irrelevance, deletion of comments from the record, point of order, withdrawal of the floor, offence or insult, disturbance, noisy signs of approval or disapproval, uproar: the President
- Call to order with entry in the record, entry in the record with censure and prohibition on taking the floor: the National Assembly, on a proposal by the President
- Temporary expulsion for not more than 24 hours, offence or insult: the President; the National Assembly (upholding)
- Call to order, offence or insult (Art. 55 of the Standing Orders)
- Call to order with entry in the record, entry in the record with censure and prohibition on taking the floor, temporary expulsion for not more than 24 hours, offence or insult (Art. 56 and 66 (7) of the Standing Orders)
- Warning for irrelevance, deletion of comments from the record, point of order, withdrawal of the floor (Art. 66 (5) and (6), and 69 (1) of the Standing Orders)
- Disturbance, offence or insult (Art. 50 (4) to (6) of the Standing Orders)
- Noisy signs of approval or disapproval (Art. 51 (5) of the Standing Orders)
- Uproar (Art. 53 of the Standing Orders)
Code (rules) of conduct · This concept does (not) exist in the country's juridical system [references, texts or comments].
· Penalties foreseen for violation of the code of conduct [references, texts or comments]:
· Procedure [references, texts or comments]:
- In this case, MPs have (no) means of recourse.
Relations between MPs and pressure group · There is one legal provision in this field (Art. 3 (3) of the Fundamental Law; prohibition, for parties, to identify themselves with a given race, ethnic group, religion or territory)
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