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• Compensation of legislators
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the conditions of election, of designation and of replacement by new
elections or appointment in the case of vacancy of [a] seat, as well as the
regime of the ineligibilities and of the incompatibilities;
the status of the parliamentarians and the amount of their indemnities.
Article 83
It may not proceed to partial elections in the last third of the legislature.
Article 84
The Parliament votes the law, consents to taxation and controls the action of the
Government conforming to the provisions of this Constitution.
• Replacement of legislators
Article 85
Any imperative mandate is null.
However, any Deputy who freely resigns from his party or from his political
formation in the course of [a] legislature is replaced[,] of right[,] by a substitute. The
law specifies the modalities of implementation of this provision.
All the members of the Parliament have deliberative voice. The right to vote of the
parliamentarians is personal. However the delegation of the vote is permitted when
the absence of a member of the Parliament is justified. No one may validly receive
for a given ballot more than one delegation of the vote.
Article 86
Every new Chamber of the Parliament proclaims the validity of the election or of the
appointment of its members[,] notwithstanding the control of regularity exercised by
the Constitutional Council.
It establishes its regulations.
An organic law establishes the regulations concerning the organization and the
functioning of the Chambers of the Parliament.
• Length of legislative sessions
Article 87
Each Chamber of the Parliament meets of plain right each year in two ordinary
sessions. The term of each may not exceed ninety days. The first session opens the
first Wednesday of March and the second the last Wednesday of September. If the
first Wednesday of March or the last Wednesday of September is a holiday, the
session opens the first working day possible which follows.
• Extraordinary legislative sessions
Article 88
Each Chamber of the Parliament meets in extraordinary session on convocation of
its President[,] at the demand of the Prime Minister or of that of an absolute majority
of the Deputies or of the Senators on a specific agenda. The extraordinary session is
closed on completion of the agenda.
• Public or private sessions
Article 89
Burkina Faso 1991 (rev. 2012)
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