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Article 161
The texts of regulatory form intervening in the matters relevant of the domain of the
law may be modified by [the] legislative way [voie], after opinion of the
Constitutional Court.
Article 162
The law of finance determines, for each year, the resources and the charges of the
State.
• Joint meetings of legislative chambers
Article 163
The two chambers of the Parliament meet in Congress to:
1. Receive a message from the President of the Republic;
2. Impeach the President of the Republic in case of high treason by a
resolution taken by two-thirds of the members of the National Assembly
and of the Senate;
3. Re-examine the bill of the law of finance in accordance with Article 177;
4. Elect the first President of the Republic post-transition;
5. Evaluate, every six months, the implementation of the program of the
Government;
6. Receive the oath from the CENI [Commission électorale nationale
indépendante/Independent National Electoral Commission].
The Bureau of the Parliament meeting in Congress is composed of the Bureaus of the
National Assembly and of the Senate. The presidency and the vice-presidency of the
sessions are entrusted respectively to the President of the National Assembly and to
the President of the Senate.
The regulations of internal order of the National Assembly are those applicable to
the deliberations of the Congress.
2. OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
• First chamber representation quotas
• Size of first chamber
• First chamber selection
• Term length for first chamber
Article 164
The National Assembly is composed of at least one hundred Deputies on the basis of
60% of Hutu and 40% of Tutsi, including a minimum of 30% of women, elected by
universal direct suffrage for a mandate of five years, and of three Deputies
originating from the Twa ethnicity co-opted in accordance with the electoral code.
In the case that the results of the vote do not reflect the percentages above
specified, it [then] proceeds to redress the corresponding [afférents] disequilibrium
by means of the mechanism of co-optation specified by the electoral code.
The number of candidates to be elected per circumscription is established by the
electoral law proportionally to the population.
Burundi 2005
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