Parliament name (generic / translated) |
Assemblée nationale / National Assembly |
Structure of parliament |
Unicameral |
LEGAL FRAMEWORK |
Electoral Law |
23 December 1991 |
Mode of designation |
directly elected 114 |
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. |
Voter requirements |
- age: 18 years
- Guinean citizenship
- full possession of civil and political rights |
CANDIDATES |
Eligibility |
Qualified electors
- age: 18 years
- 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
- judges
- 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 |