Africa-Press – Angola. The formal closing session of the Parliamentary Year 2022-2023, of the V Legislature, will take place on the 15th of this month, under the guidance of the President of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira.
The information was provided this Monday by the first secretary of the Board of the National Assembly, Manuel Lopes Dembo.
Before the final speech, to be given by Carolina Cerqueira, the summary of the Balance Report of the 1st Legislative Session of the V Legislature of the National Assembly (2022/2023) will be presented.
The National Assembly is a legislative body comprising 220 deputies elected by universal suffrage.
In this context, 130 deputies are elected by proportional representation in national constituencies, 90 deputies are elected by provincial constituencies, with 5 deputies elected in each province.
The Legislature comprises five Legislative Sessions or parliamentary years, each Legislative Session starting on October 15 and lasting one year, without prejudice to the intervals provided for by law.
The effective functioning period of the National Assembly is 10 months and ends on the 15th of August of the following year.
Outside the period of effective functioning (August 15th to October 15th), the AN can function extraordinarily by deliberation of the Plenary, by convening the Permanent Commission or, due to its impossibility, and in case of emergency, by initiative of more than half of the deputies in office.
In that legislature, the 220 deputies come from five political parties, namely MPLA, UNITA, FNLA, PRS and PHA.
The results of the August 2022 General Elections allowed the MPLA to elect 124 deputies, UNITA 90, and the PRS, FNLA and PHA each to elect two deputies.
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