Nigerien parliamentary election, 1999

The parliamentary elections in Niger in 1999 took place on 24 November 1999. Were elected the 83 members of the National Assembly of Niger.

Background

President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in 1996 by a military coup to power. Most of the major parties boycotted the subsequent parliamentary elections of 1996, where the President's party National Union of Independents for Democratic Renewal ( UNIRD ) won an absolute majority. Baré Maïnassara died on 9 April 1999 in a military coup in which his regime of the Fourth Republic was overthrown. The constitution of the Fifth Republic was approved in the constitutional referendum on 18 July 1999. For October and November of the same year presidential and parliamentary elections was scheduled. In the presidential elections on October 17, 1999 no candidate achieved an absolute majority. The winner Mamadou Tandja of the National Movement of the Development Society ( MNSD - Nassara ) and runner-up Mahamadou Issoufou of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism ( PNDS - Tarraya ) to set a runoff election, which were placed on the same day as the parliamentary elections: 24. November 1999. Around the 83 seats in the National Assembly who applied for more than 700 people and 19 parties.

Results

  • MNSD - Nassara submission: election diagram / ​​Maintenance / Name: 38
  • CDS Rahama submission: election diagram / ​​Maintenance / Name: 17
  • PNDS - Tarayya submission: election diagram / ​​Maintenance / Name: 16
  • RDP - Jama'a submission: election diagram / ​​Maintenance / Name: 8
  • ANDP - Zaman Lahiya submission: election diagram / ​​Maintenance / Symbol: 4

For elections 4,587,684 voters were registered. The election was supervised by more than 1,000 election observers. Among them were some 200 foreign election observers.

Follow

In the presidential election won Mamadou Tandja, whose MNSD - Nassara received the most votes also in the parliamentary elections. On 26 December 1999, the former President Mahamane Ousmane ( CDS Rahama ) was elected President of the National Assembly. On 5 January 2000 appointed President Tandja the first government of the Fifth Republic with Hama Amadou ( MNSD - Nassara ) as Prime Minister. The government included members of the MNSD - Nassara and the CDS Rahama, also members of non- parliamentary parties, such as the PUND Salama and UDFP - Sawaba, as well as non-partisan experts.

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