| Parliament name (generic / translated) |
Assemblée nationale / National Assembly |
| Structure of parliament |
Unicameral |
| LEGAL FRAMEWORK |
| Electoral Law |
6 September 1992
05/04/1993 |
| Mode of designation |
directly elected 65 |
| Constituencies |
6 multi-member (4 to 37 seats, according to population) constituencies. |
| Voting system |
Majority:
- Party-list simple majority system in one round of voting, without vote-splitting or preferential vote.
- Legislative elections shall be held within 30 days prior to or following the expiry of the mandate of members of the National Assembly (Article 29, paragraph 2 of organic law no. 1/AN/92 on elections).
Voting is not compulsory. |
| Voter requirements |
- Age: 18 years
- Djibouti citizenship
- Full enjoyment of civil and political rights
- Disqualifications: criminal conviction, certain prison sentences |
| CANDIDATES |
| Eligibility |
- Qualified voters
- Age: 23 years
- Djibouti citizenship
- Residence in the country
Ability to read, write and speak French or Arabic fluently
Disqualifications:
- Persons convicted for a crime, convicted of an offence and sentenced to a prison term exceeding three years or a suspended prison sentence exceeding one year, except for convictions involving misdemeanour
- Non-Djiboutian nationals |
| Incompatibilities |
- President of the Republic
- National Commissioners, district chiefs and deputy district chiefs, subdistrict (arrondissement) chiefs in the district of Djibouti
- Government and ministry secretaries general
- Magistrates
- State supervisors, labour inspectors and school supervisors
Members of the armed forces and of the national security force
- Police commissioners and inspectors |
| Candidacy requirements |
- party lists must be submitted at least 15 days before the start of the election campaign
- a deposit of D.Fr. 500,000 per candidate is required; it is reimbursed to all candidates on party lists having obtained at least 5 per cent of the votes cast. |
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