National Assembly (Burkina Faso)

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The National Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale, lit. 'National Assembly') is the unicameral legislative body of Burkina Faso. In 1995, it became the lower house of a bicameral parliament, but the upper house (Chamber of Representatives) was abolished in 2002, though plans were made to restore the upper house under the new name of "Senate" in the June 2012 constitutional amendments; it was never executed due to an extended and unresolved political confrontation over the Senate's establishment, which left the country effectively with a unicameral legislature as of 2026. On 30 October 2014, as part of the 2014 Burkinabé uprising, protesters stormed the parliament building and set fire to it in anger at the parliament's decision to amend the Constitution of Burkina Faso to abolish term limits, which would have effectively paved the way for President Blaise Compaoré to remain in office for another five-year term. On 24 January 2022, during the January 2022 Burkinabé coup d'état, President...

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