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They have the right to a final indemnity equal to six months of their emoluments.
The modalities of application of the preceding paragraph as well as the other rights
of the Parliamentarians are established by the Internal Regulations of each of the
Chambers.
Paragraph 5: Of the End and of the Suspension of the
Mandate of National Deputy or of Senator
[Amended by Law No. 11/002 of 20 January 2011.]
• Removal of individual legislators
Article 110
[Amended by Law No. 11/002 of 20 January 2011.]
The mandate of Deputy or of Senator is ended by:
1. the expiration of the legislature;
2. death;
3. resignation;
4. definitive impediment;
5. permanent incapacity;
6. non-justified and non-authorized absence from more than a quarter of the
sittings of a session;
7. exclusion specified by the electoral law;
8. irrevocable sentence to a penalty of penal servitude for an intentional
infraction.
9. acceptance of a function incompatible with the mandate of Deputy or of
Senator;
However, when a National Deputy or a Senator is appointed to a political function
incompatible with the exercise of his parliamentary mandate, he is suspended.
He reclaims of plain right his parliamentary mandate after the cessation of that
incompatible political function.
Any cause of ineligibility, at the date of the elections, declared subsequently by the
competent judicial authority, results in the loss of the mandate of National Deputy or
of Senator.
• Replacement of legislators
In the cases enumerated above, the National Deputy or the Senator is replaced by
the first substitute, or in default [of this], by the second substitute. In the case of
deficiency of substitute[s], a partial election is organized in the electoral
circumscription concerned.
The National Deputy, the Senator or the substitute who deliberately leaves his
political party during the legislature is deemed to have renounced his parliamentary
mandate or that [of] substitution obtained within the order of that political party.
Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011)
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