The next National Assembly of Mali will be a lower house, in accordance with the reforms brought by the new fundamental law which heralds the advent of bicameralism. As for the size of the future.
hemicycle, it is still circulating under the cloaks and the organic law relating to it does not seem to be included in the range of projects expected at the National Transitional Council. We have heard from good sources, however, that the number of representatives of the nation could be set at 153 elected instead of 147 in the old one, or only six additional deputies. The range of circles previously created will therefore not have affected the situation unduly, while it foreshadowed a much more significant increase in the number of deputies. Everything indicates, ultimately, that the authorities were able to thwart the plethora advocated by a change in the degree of electoral constituency. Instead of the circle, in fact, future candidates for national representation will have to mobilize the electoral college at the regional level. According to our sources, moreover, some of the said regions could have kept the same number of seats while the upheavals caused will perhaps pose new equations to the holders of electoral lists. And more specifically to the political parties.
