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Paragraph 6: Of the Functioning of the National Assembly
and of the Senate
• Leader of first chamber
• Leader of second chamber
Article 111
The National Assembly and the Senate are each directed by a Bureau of seven
members consisting of:
1. a president;
2. a first vice president;
3. a second vice president;
4. a rapporteur [secretary]
5. an adjunct rapporteur;
6. a questeur [treasurer]
7. an adjunct questeur.
The Presidents of the two Chambers must be Congolese of origin. The members of
the Bureau are elected under the conditions established by the Internal Regulations
of their respective Chamber.
• Legislative committees
Article 112
Each Chamber of Parliament adopts its Internal Regulations.
The internal regulations determine, notably:
1. the duration and the rules of functioning of the Bureau, the powers and the
prerogatives of its President as well as of the other members of the Bureau;
2. the number, the mode of designation, the composition, the role and the
competence of the permanent commissions as well as the creation and the
functioning of special and temporary commissions;
3. the organization of the administrative services directed by a Secretary
General of the Public Administration of each Chamber;
4. the disciplinary regime of the Deputies and of the Senators;
5. the different modes of the ballot, with the exclusion of those expressly
provided for in this Constitution
Before being implemented, the Internal Regulations are obligatorily transmitted by
the President of the concerned Chamber to the Constitutional Court which decides
on their conformity with the Constitution within a period of fifteen days. This period
elapsing, the internal regulations are deemed to conform.
Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011)
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