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burkina Faso*

H.E. Newton Ahmed BARRY,
President, CENI

PArt i PArt ii

CoUNtrY ProfiLE LEgisLAtivE sYstEM

1. Official Name 1. Structure of National Legislature:
Burkina Faso Bicameral

2. Government 2. Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
Presidential Republic Sénat (Senate)
Assemblee Nationale (National Assembly)
3. Head of State Designation
President Roch Marc Christian KABORE 3. Total no. of members in each house elected/
nominated
4. Head of government Designation
Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie DABIRE 39 members of the Sénat (Senate) are elected by
regional governing councils, 21 members are in-
5. Capital directly elected by special interest groups while 39
Ouagadougou members are filled by the President. 127 members
of the Assemblee Nationale (National Assembly)
6. Currency are elected through closed-list proportional repre-
Communaute Financiere sentation system.

7. Ethnic Groups (with %age population) 4. Popular House
Mossi 52%, Fulani 8.4%, Gurma 7%, Bobo 4.9%, Assemblee Nationale
Gurunsi 4.6%, Senufo 4.5%, Bissa 3.7%, Lobi 2.4%, 5. Type of Electoral System
Dagara 2.4%, Tuareg/Bella 1.9%, Dioula 0.8%, un- Presidential: two round system, simple majority
specified/no answer 0.3%, other 7.2%
Parliamentary: proportional representation using
8. Date of Independence the ‘greatest remainder’ electoral quotient system
5 August 1960 (from France) (2-9 seats in each constituency)

9. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution PArt iii
Formally approved on 2 June 1991 last amended ELECtorAL sYstEM
in Jan., 2002

10. Language (s) (A) ELECTION MANAGEMENT BODy
French, Mossi (Official)
1. Name of the EMB(S)
11. Literacy Levels Commission Electorale Nationale Independante
Male: 50.07% Female: 32.69% Total:41.22% (CENI) (Independent National Election Commis-
(2018) sion)

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