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as minority leader. The Speaker and Deputy Speaker may only be chosen from among the presidential appointees to the National Assembly, not the elected members. Speakers of the National Assembly are considered impartial presiding officers, although they may cast tie-breaking votes.
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On April 7, 2017, the IEC announced that UDP had won a majority of 31 seats out of 53 available during the 2017 legislative elections.
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and consists of 58 members who serve a five-year term. 53 members are directly elected while the remaining five are appointed by the
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as assembly speaker, Seedy Njieh as deputy speaker, Billay Tunkara as majority leader and UDP leader
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Legislative elections to the renamed National Assembly took place on 2 January 1997. Jammeh's
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The current leadership of the National Assembly is as follows: APRC leader
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad
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in the Gambia began in May 1962, when elections were held for a 32-seat
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List of NAMs elected in the 2022 Gambian parliamentary election
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On 17 April 2022, the sixth legislature was sworn in after the
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People's Democratic Organization for Independence and Socialism
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Independents are listed as part of the opposition by default.
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gave the pro-government bloc a majority, with 29 seats.
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List of speakers of the National Assembly of the Gambia
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Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction
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Index

Coat of arms or logo
Unicameral
Speaker
Fabakary Jatta
APRC
NPP
NPP
Alhagie S Darboe
UDP

Government
NPP
NRP
APRC
Opposition
UDP
Independents
PDOIS
Voting system
First-past-the-post voting
single-member constituencies
President
9 April 2022
Banjul
www.assembly.gm
Politics of the Gambia

Constitution
Human rights
LGBT rights

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