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The unicameral National Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale; Creole: Lasanble Nasyonal) is the Seychelles's legislative body. The National Assembly in its current constellation formed following elections held on 22–24 October 2020, with a total of 35 members.
The Assembly was increased from 22 to 33 seats by the addition of 11 seats to be elected by proportional representation in addition to the 22 constituency seats. The ruling Seychelles People's Progressive Front , which had previously been the sole legal party, won both elections, taking 27 of the 33 seats in the National Assembly, whilst its ...
Members of the National Assembly are elected by two methods; 26 (with a new constituency established in 2020) are elected from single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting, and up to a further ten are elected based on the percentage of votes received by each party; for each 10% of the total national vote received, a party gets ...
The election of the National Assembly was held on the 22–24 October 2020. The Seychelles National Party, the Seychelles Party for Social Justice and Democracy and the Seychelles United Party formed a coalition, Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS). The coalition won the majority of the seats. [2]
General elections were held in Seychelles on 22–24 October 2020 to elect the President and members of the National Assembly. [1] The National Assembly elections had been due in 2021, [2] but in July 2020 were brought forward by President Danny Faure in order to hold them together with the presidential elections, a proposal supported by opposition parties.
The four main opposition parties (the Seychelles National Party, the Seychellois Alliance, the Seychelles Party for Social Justice and Democracy and the Seychelles United Party) formed a coalition, Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS) in order to contest the elections, having boycotted the 2011 elections, [7] which saw the People's Party win all 31 seats.
Seychelles elects on national level a head of state—the president—and a legislature.The president is elected for a five-year term by the people. The National Assembly/Assemblée Nationale has 34 members elected for terms of five years, 25 members elected in single-seat constituencies and 9 members elected by proportional representation.
Parti Lepep leader James Michel was the winner of the 2011 presidential election and President of Seychelles from 2004 to 2016. He had previously served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Seychelles People's United Party from 1974 to 1977; member of the Central Executive Committee for the Seychelles People's Progressive Front (SPPF); and SPPF's Deputy Secretary-General, then ...