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Article 165
The candidate to the legislative elections must be of Burundian nationality and
origin, be twenty-five years old at least, [and] enjoy all of their civil and political
rights.
The candidate to the legislative elections must not have been convicted for a crime
or misdemeanor of common law to a penalty determined by the electoral law.
The electoral law specifies equally the time period after which a person condemned
in the sense of the preceding paragraph may recover their eligibility since the
execution of the sentence.
Article 166
The candidates to the legislative elections may be presented by the political parties
or present themselves as independents as defined by Article 98 of this Constitution.
Article 167
The Independent National Electoral Commission verifies the receivability of the
candidatures.
• First chamber selection
Article 168
The elections of the Deputies takes place following the ballot for the bloc lists by
proportional representation. These lists must have a multi-ethnic character and take
into account the equilibrium between men and women. For three candidates
registered together on a list, only two may belong to the same ethnic group, and at
least one in four must be a woman.
Article 169
The candidates presented by the political parties or the lists of independents may
only be considered as elected and sit in the National Assembly if, nationwide, their
party or their list totaled a number of suffrage equal or superior to 2% of the whole
of the expressed suffrage.
• Leader of first chamber
Article 170
From its first session, the National Assembly adopts its internal regulations which
determines its organization and its functioning. It also puts its Bureau in place. The
first session meets of plain right the first working day following the seventh day after
the validation of its election by the Constitutional Court. This session is presided
over by the oldest Deputy.
• Leader of first chamber
Article 171
The Bureau of the National Assembly includes one President and Vice-Presidents.
The President and the other members of Bureau of the National Assembly are
elected for the entire [toute] legislature. Nevertheless, their functions may be
terminated within the conditions established by the internal regulations of the
National Assembly.
Burundi 2005
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