constituteproject.org • Extraordinary legislative sessions • Length of legislative sessions PDF generated: 04 Jan 2016, 20:27 Article 52 The National Assembly can be reunited in extraordinary session on a specific agenda at the demand of the President of the Republic, of the President of the National Assembly or at the demand of the absolute majority of the Deputies. The duration of an extraordinary session may not exceed fifteen days. The National Assembly recesses once the agenda is exhausted. • Leader of first chamber Article 53 The President of the National Assembly is elected for the duration of the legislature. • Legislative committees • Standing committees Article 54 The National Assembly establishes its internal regulations. The internal regulations determine: • the composition, and the rules of functioning of the Bureau as well as the powers and prerogatives of its President; • the number, mode of designation, the composition, the role and the competence of its permanent commissions, as well as that of those which are special and temporary; • the creation of parliamentary commissions of inquiry within the framework of the control of the action of the Government; • the procedure of interpellation of the Government; • the regime of discipline of the Deputies; • the organization of the administrative services placed under the authority of the President of the National Assembly, assisted by an Administrative Secretary General; • the different modes of the ballot, with the exception of those expressly specified in this Constitution; • in a general manner, all the rules having for their object the functioning of the National Assembly within the framework of its constitutional competence. TITLE V: OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE LEGISLATIVE POWER AND THE EXECUTIVE POWER Article 55 The National Assembly exercises the legislative power. It alone votes the law by simple majority, under reserve of the provisions of Article 67. Djibouti 1992 (rev. 2010) Page 12