2034 Congress of North Africa election

2034 Congress of North Africa election

The **2034 Congress of North Africa election** was held between Thursday 16 March, 2034 and Friday 24 March, 2034 to elect members of the 1st Congress of North Africa, and was the first congressional election to be held under the North African Federation, as well as the first election under the 2034 constitution of North Africa and the only election where all candidates were members of the African Federalist Party. The 2034 election was also a special election which simultaneously, but separately, elected the offices of president and vice president of North Africa.

Following a series of aggressive expansionist moves against northern African countries and the launch of the Bovido Imperium's conquest of Africa, a collection of Saharan and sub-Saharan nations joined together in March 2034 to form the North African Federation in an attempt to pool resources and sovereignty against the Bovido Imperium. Under the new state, Sudanese leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan became the first president of the federation and presided over the initial integration of member states under an interim constitution; as part of the agreed integration, each individual member state was required to field a delegation of representatives to take up a seat in the new Congress of North Africa, who would in turn elect both the president and vice president.

Under the 2034 North African constitution, congressional sessions were capped at a single year to coincide with presidential terms. However, despite the constitution mandating direct elections, president Abdel Fattah al-Burhan overturned the rule with a temporary executive decree to make sure that state governments would be able to appoint representatives for the first congressional term. Between March 16 and March 24, 2034, representatives from across the North African Federation were appointed to the Congress of Africa. Whilst many of the politicians were members of state-level ruling parties, at the federal level representatives of state regimes united under the banner of the African Federalist Party, which in turn began to create state-level alliances with regional ruling parties, which became affiliate branches or direct divisions of the AFP.

After the passing of the final deadline for nominations for representatives on March 24, 2034, the newly established North African Electoral Board (NAEB) formally certified the electoral results over the weekend and on Monday 27, 2034, the new congress assembled for the first time in Omdurman to elect executive branch officials. After a ballot by the Congress of North Africa, incumbent acting president Abdel Fattah al-Burhan was elected as president for the 2034-35 term in office, whilst Yayi Boni was elected president for the 2035-36 term. Subsequently, on April 1, 1034, al-Burhan and Boni were inaugurated as president and vice president respectively. The proceedings of the election was highly criticised by several opposition figures across the federation, who held no power due to the lack of direct elections - in response to the unification, the Christian Loyalist Party was established in the summer of 2034 under the leadership of Jean Bagasauo and sought to end the AFP's policy of official hostility towards both the Bovido Imperium and followers of the Faith, as well as Christians in general. Over the course of the legislative session, the Congress of North Africa was largely loyal towards President al-Burhan's policy platform and voted through extensive constitutional changes in August and September 2034 which rapidly expanded the power of the federal government, as well as the executive branch. At midnight on December 31, 2034, the first congressional session automatically terminated in preparation for the country's first nationwide direct legislative elections.