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Article 82
The law determines the conditions for the election of Deputies.
Of the Senate
Article 83
The Senate is the organ of territorial representation and of the local corporations, in
the manner determined by the law.
• Second chamber selection
• Scheduling of elections
• Secret ballot
• Size of second chamber
• Term length of second chamber
• Claim of universal suffrage
Article 84
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• Eligibility for second chamber
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• Second chamber selection
The Senate is composed of seventy senators that are elected for a mandate
of five years by universal, direct and secret suffrage in general elections
that are held on one day and within sixty days before or after the expiration
of their mandate.
The law determines the number of senators of free appointment by the
President of the Republic among the seventy senators.
The Electoral Law defines the electoral circumscriptions and determines
the number of seats corresponding to each one, the regime of eligibility and
ineligibility and of compatibility and incompatibility of the senators and
develops other aspects of the electoral process.
Seats are attributed to each territorial representation and to local
corporations.
Article 85
The Ex-Presidents of the Republic, the Ex-Vice Presidents of the Republic, the
Ex-Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, are natural senators with
all the rights, prerogatives and immunities, when conserving their political and social
dignity and reputation.
• Second chamber reserved policy areas
Article 86
Only those matters that fall within its specific competences may be included in the
agenda of the sessions of the Senate and those that the President of the Republic
and the Chamber of Deputies expressly solicit for intervention.
• Head of state replacement
Article 87
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Equatorial Guinea 1991 (rev. 2012)
In case of the simultaneous vacancy in the Presidency and the
Vice-presidency of the Republic, the President of the Senate temporarily
[interinamente] assumes the role of President of the Republic and shall
convoke new presidential elections within a period of ninety days.
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