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• Removal of individual legislators
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Article 72
During his mandate, the Deputy may not, under penalty of forfeiture, change
political group to affiliate with a new group, other than the one in the name of which
he has been elected.
In the case of infraction of the preceding paragraph, the sanction is forfeiture that is
declared by the High Constitutional Court.
The Deputy elected without belonging to a party may affiliate with the
parliamentary group of his choice within the Assembly.
The forfeiture of a Deputy may also be declared by the High Constitutional Court if
he deviates from the line of conduct of his parliamentary group.
The regime of forfeiture and the rules of ethics and of deontology are determined by
the law on the political parties and the regulations in the matter of the financing of
the political parties.
• Immunity of legislators
• Standing committees
Article 73
No Deputy may be prosecuted, investigated, arrested, detained or judged for the
opinions or the votes emitted by him in the exercise of his functions.
A Deputy may, during the sessions, only be prosecuted and arrested in criminal or
correctional matters, with the authorization of the Assembly, except in the case of
flagrante delicto.
No Deputy may, out of session, be arrested without the authorization of the Bureau
of the Assembly, except in case of flagrante delicto, of authorized prosecutions or of
definitive conviction.
Any person justified by an interest may refer in writing the Permanent Bureau of the
National Assembly to the matter of accusing a Deputy. The Bureau must give a
detailed response within a time period of three months.
• Leader of first chamber
• Standing committees
Article 74
The President of the National Assembly and the members of the Bureau are elected
at the beginning of the first session for the duration of the legislature.
Nevertheless, they can be removed from their respective functions of members of
the Bureau for grave reason by a secret vote of two-thirds of the Deputies.
• Budget bills
• Length of legislative sessions
Article 75
The National Assembly meets of plain right in two ordinary sessions per year. The
duration of each session is established at sixty days.
The first session begins on the first Tuesday of May and the second, consecrated
principally to the adoption of the law of finance, the third Tuesday of October.
• Extraordinary legislative sessions
Article 76
The National Assembly meets in extraordinary session, on a determined agenda, by
decree of the President of the Republic taken in the Council of Ministers, either by
the initiative of the Prime Minister or at the demand of the absolute majority of the
members composing the National Assembly.
Madagascar 2010
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