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H.E. Yves Herinirina Rakotomanana
President, CENI

PArt i PArt ii
CoUNtrY ProfiLE LEgisLAtivE sYstEM

1. Official Name LEGISLATURE
Repoblikan’I Madagasikara
1. Structure of National Legislature:
2. Government Bicameral
Semi-Presidential Republic
2. Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
3. Head of State Designation The National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale)
President Andry Rajoelina
The Senate (Sénat)
4. Head of government Designation
Prime Minister Christian NTSAY 3. Total no. of members in each house elected/
nominated
5. Capital There are total 151 seats in the National Assembly.
Antananarivo
Regional legislatures appoint 22 members while
6. Currency 11 members are appointed by the President in the
Malagasy ariary Senat (Senate). Through plurality vote, 115 mem-
bers are elected in single-member constituencies
7. Ethnic Groups (with %age population) while 12 members are elected by single non-trans-
Malayo-Indonesian, Cotiers, French, Indian, Creole, ferable vote from two-member constituencies in
Comoran the Assemblee Nationale.

8. Date of Independence 4. Popular House
26 June 1960 (from France) Assemblée Nationale

9. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution 5. Type of Electoral System
Adopted on 19 August 1992 by national referen- Plurality vote, Single non-transferable vote
dum

10. Language (s)
Malagasy (of Malayo-Polynesian origin), French,
(both official)

11. Literacy Levels
Male: 77.28% Female: 72.38%
Total: 74.8% (2015)

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