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27-550: The National Party for Solidarity and Development was established in 1989. Rabah Bencherif was the leader of the party. The current leader is Dalila Yalaqui. In the 17 May 2007 People's National Assembly elections , the party won 2.08% of the vote and 2 out of 389 seats. It also won four seats in the 2012 elections . This article about an Algerian political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . People%27s National Assembly Opposition (80) Others (84) [REDACTED] Member State of

54-503: A successive order of replacement going from the first to the ninth vice-president. The permanent committees have an important monitoring role: they can conduct hearings and set up fact-finding missions. They can monitor, through reports, the application of laws by the Government. Each assembly can create a parliamentary commission of inquiry by passing a resolution. They are trained to collect information either on specific facts or on

81-419: Is responsible for investigating. The members of the committees of inquiry are appointed in such a way as to ensure proportional representation of the political groups. Committees of inquiry are of a temporary nature. Their mission ends with the submission of their report and, at the latest, at the expiration of a period of six months from the date of the adoption of the resolution which created them. According to

108-781: The Algerian People's National Armed Forces canceled the elections. A substitute legislative body, the National Consultative Council, was established in April 1992 and lasted until May 1994, when the National Transitional Council ruled for until the next elections, held on 5 June 1997. In 1996, the legislature split into two chambers forming the Algerian Parliament with the ratification of a new constitution. After

135-917: The Constitution . The President of the Republic can dissolve the People's National Assembly, and the only one authorized to do so. According to article 147 of the Constitution, the President of the Republic can decide on the dissolution of the National People's Congress or on early legislative elections, after consultations with the President of the APN, the President of the Council of the Nation and

162-623: The 1997 elections, women composed 3.4% of APN members. By 2012, Algerian women occupied 31 percent of parliamentary seats, placing the country 26th worldwide and 1st in the Arab world. The People's National Assembly is an institution of the Republic and, together with the Council of the Nation , forms one of the chambers of the Parliament . As such, it votes the law, monitors government action and evaluates public policies. Its powers are fixed by

189-468: The APN is Ibrahim Boughali, an independent member. The minimum age to vote in Algeria is 18 and voting is not compulsory. The first election for the People's National Assembly was held on 20 September 1962. In 1963, the President of the Republic of Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella , halted the activities of the APN and set up a Revolution Council lasting from 1965 to 1976. The APN was reestablished in 1976 with

216-642: The APW, or Popular Provincial Parliament/Provincial Popular Parliament (the A ssemblée P opulaire W ilayale , in French) is the political entity governing a province, directed by the Wali ( Governor ), who is chosen by the Algerian President to handle the APW's decisions, the APW has also a president, who is elected by the members of the APW, which Algerians elect. By 1984 the number of Algerian provinces

243-652: The African Union [REDACTED] Member State of the Arab League Algeria , since December 18, 2019, is divided into 58 wilayas ( provinces ). Prior to December 18, 2019, there were 48 provinces. The 58 provinces are divided into 1,541 baladiyahs ( municipalities ). The name of a province is always that of its capital city. According to the Algerian constitution, a wilaya is a territorial collectivity enjoying economic and diplomatic freedom,

270-553: The African Union [REDACTED] Member State of the Arab League The People's National Assembly ( Arabic : المجلس الشعبي الوطني , romanized :  al-Majlis al-Sha'abi al-Watani ; abbreviated APN ) is the lower house of the Algerian Parliament . It is composed of 407 members directly elected by the population. Of the 407 seats, 8 are reserved for Algerians living abroad. Members of

297-609: The Assembly, appoints its representatives within the Bureau and different committees, depending on their size, their own financial subsidy and have offices and rooms to meet. The building of the People's National Assembly is the former city hall of the municipality of Greater Algiers, at Boulevard Che-Guevara  [ fr ] on the Algiers monumental waterfront. Provinces of Algeria [REDACTED] Member State of

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324-485: The Constitutional Court to verify the constitutionality of a law before its promulgation. It can also decide, with the Bureau, to reform the rules and the functioning of the People's National Assembly. The president of the People's National Assembly is elected at the beginning of the legislature for the duration of the latter. Although the information is not made public, the amount of the compensation of

351-442: The People's National Assembly are directly elected through proportional representation in multiple-member districts and serve terms lasting five years at a time. The last election for this body was held on 12 June 2021. The minimum age for election to the Assembly is 28. There are 58 districts, corresponding to the wilayas (provinces) , and an overseas constituency, which send representatives to this body. The current speaker of

378-573: The People's National Assembly has a role of directing debates and organizing the work of the Assembly. He is the fourth person of the State in the order of precedence during the protocol ceremonies, behind the President of the Republic , the Prime Minister and finally the President of the Council of the Nation . In the legislative procedure, the president opens and closes the meeting, leads

405-472: The Prime Minister. The National People's Assembly is made up of 407 seats filled by multi-member proportional representation in 58 constituencies corresponding to the wilayas (provinces) of the country, with an additional overseas constituency . Each constituency is allocated a number of seats according to its population, with a minimum of three seats per constituency. After counting the votes,

432-426: The creation of a special committee, the right to obtain a suspension of the session to convene the group, to request the vote by public ballot, to call in session for the verification of the quorum on the occasion of a vote, to prepare the order of monthly parliamentary day specific to their group, to propose or oppose the initiation of simplified engagement procedures. Each group, depending on its numerical weight within

459-503: The debates and enforces the rules. He may be replaced in these functions by one of the vice-presidents. It also has important constitutional prerogatives: it appoints three of the nine members of the Constitutional Court ; it must be consulted by the President of the Republic before he exercises some of his constitutional powers (such as dissolution or concerning full powers in times of crisis). He can also at any time seize

486-470: The following provinces have been added on December 18, 2019: In 1984 17 new provinces were added. These provinces included: The 15 departments were reorganized to form 31 provinces: Immediately after independence, Algeria retained its 15 former French départements, which were renamed wilayas (provinces) in 1968, for the most part, with some name changes: During the Algerian War of Independence ,

513-464: The hemicycle where they will sit. They are then the sole judges of how to distribute their members and relatives within this zone. They have their own organization and their own rules of procedure, elect from among themselves a president who will represent them within the Conference of Presidents and who will have several important prerogatives (such as the request or on the contrary the opposition to

540-480: The list of provinces, showing for each its numerical code, its name (which is at all times the same as the name of the capital city of the province), the number of districts ("dairas"), the number of municipalities, its area, and its population. On 26 November 2019, the Cabinet of Algeria passed a bill to add 10 more provinces, by splitting some of the larger provinces in the south of Algeria into smaller ones. Thus,

567-411: The management of public services or national companies, with a view to submitting their conclusions to the assembly that created them. A commission of inquiry cannot be created on facts which gave rise to legal proceedings and as long as these proceedings are in progress. If a commission has already been created, its mission ends upon the opening of a judicial investigation relating to the facts on which it

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594-616: The passage of Algeria's new constitution, at the time only a unicameral legislature. Up until 1991, the ruling party was the National Liberation Front (FLN), and in fact, the 1976 Algerian constitution considered the FLN as the preferred Algerian political party. The first APN election with multiple parties was held in December 1991. After a predicted Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) victory, a fundamentalist opposition party,

621-416: The president of the APN is known and amounts to about 600,000 dinars, significantly higher than that of the deputies. The nine vice-presidents of the People's National Assembly, the distribution of which is the subject of a consensus between the different political groups which nominate their candidates beforehand, essentially aim to replace the president of the APN at the perch if this one is prevented, with

648-470: The regulations of the National Assembly, the "deputies can regroup by political affinities" in parliamentary groups . They must contain at least ten members. The political group must present at the opening of the legislature to the President of the People's National Assembly a political declaration signed by its members. In addition to the full members of the group, who are generally members of

675-406: The same party ( FLN , RND , FFS , etc.), some deputies can "relate" to a group: they are not then included in the quota. minimum of 10 required for group formation. These are usually members from small parties or without labels close to the tendency of the main political movement behind the formation of the group. The groups decide, with the president of the People's National Assembly, the areas of

702-412: The seats are distributed according to the largest remainder method , without an electoral threshold . Before the 2021 election (which was the first after 10 new provinces were created in 2019), there was a constituency for each of the 48 provinces, plus four constituencies for Algerians living overseas. The province-based constituencies were guaranteed a minimum of four seats each. The president of

729-588: Was fixed at 48 and established the list of municipalities or "communes" attached to each province. In 2019, 10 new provinces were added. The province numbers are the first 31 provinces (see the second section) in Arabic alphabetical order, after the adding of 17 more provinces in 1983 and 10 more in 2019, the old numbering was kept and the 27 provinces created since 1984 have been assigned codes from 32 to 58, in Arabic alphabetical order . The following table presents

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