Term limits No limits Speaker Cholzer Chancy | New session started 14 January 2016 Seats 119 | |
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Type Lower house of the National Assembly of Haiti Political groups PHTK: 26
VERITE: 13
OPL: 7
KID: 7
Famni Lavalas: 6
AAA: 6
INITE: 4
LAPEH: 3
FUSION: 3
BOUCLIER: 3
RENMEN: 2
CONSORTIUM: 2
MOSANO: 2
Others: 8
Vacant: 27 | ||
The Chamber of Deputies (French: Chambre des Députés) is the lower house of Haiti's bicameral legislature, the National Assembly. The upper house of the National Assembly is the Senate of Haiti. The Chamber has 119 members (previously ninety-nine) who are elected by popular vote to four-year terms. There are no term limits for Deputies; they may be re-elected indefinitely.
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In March 2015 a new electoral decree stated that the new Chamber of Deputies have 118 members, and the Senate will retain the 30 members. On 13 March, President Michel Martelly issued a decree that split the Cerca La Source in two constituencies, and therefore increasing the number of deputies up to 119.
Elections history
Candidates from Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party took seventy-three of the then eighty-three seats in the 2000 elections. Following the overthrow of the government in February 2004, an interim government was established. The terms of the Deputies expired during the rule of the interim government and the Chamber remained empty. It was re-established along with the Senate, and elections were scheduled for November 2005. After many delays and missed deadlines, elections were finally held on 21 April 2006. The Deputies commenced meeting in June 2006. The exact makeup of the Chamber remains unknown as the Provisional Electoral Committee (CEP) has not posted the results. The next Chamber elections were scheduled for 2010. There were new parliamentary elections in 2015–16.