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Article 47
An organic law determines the number of Deputies, their indemnities, the conditions
of eligibility, the regime of ineligibilities and incompatibilities, the modalities of the
ballot, and the conditions in which there is reason to organize new elections in case
of vacancy of seats of Deputies.
The Constitutional Council decides in case of dispute concerning the regularity of
the election of the Deputies and concerning their eligibility.
Article 48
Each Deputy is the representative of the Nation. Any imperative mandate is null.
An organic law may authorize, exceptionally, the delegation of the vote. In such case
no one may receive the delegation of more than one mandate.
Article 49
The National Assembly is composed of the entirety of the representatives of the
national community.
• Immunity of legislators
Article 50
The members of the National Assembly enjoy parliamentary immunity.
No Deputy may be prosecuted, investigated, arrested, detained or judged for reason
of the opinions or votes emitted by him in the exercise of his functions.
No Deputy may, during the time of the sessions, be prosecuted or arrested, in a
criminal or correctional matter except in the case of flagrante delicto, without the
authorization of the National Assembly.
No Deputy may, outside the sessions, be arrested without the authorization of the
Bureau of the National Assembly, except in the case of flagrante delicto, of
authorized prosecution or of definitive condemnation.
The detention or the prosecution of a Deputy is suspended if the National Assembly
requires it.
• Public or private sessions
Article 51
The National Assembly meets of plain right in two ordinary sittings per year. The first
ordinary commences on March 1 and the second begins on October 1.
• Length of legislative sessions
The duration of each ordinary session is of four months. The Bureau of the National
Assembly may however decide to prolong it by a period that shall not exceed fifteen
days to permit the consideration of proposals of law of parliamentary origin which
could not be taken up in the course of the Ordinary Session.
The sittings of the National Assembly are public.
• Publication of deliberations
The complete record of the debates in public sittings is published in the Journal
Officiel.
However, the National Assembly can meet in closed sittings according to the
modalities provided for by the Internal Regulations.
• Finance bills
Djibouti 1992 (rev. 2010)
The Law of Finance of the year is considered in the course of the second ordinary
Session, called the Budgetary Session.
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