The National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate. The National Assembly's legislators are known as députés, meaning "delegate" or "envoy" in English; etymologically, it is a cognate of the English word deputy, the standard term for legislators in many parliamentary systems.
The National Assembly of Quebec is the legislative body of the province of Quebec in Canada. Legislators are called MNAs. The King in Right of Quebec, represented by the lieutenant governor of Quebec, and the National Assembly compose the Legislature of Quebec, which operates in a fashion similar to those of other Westminster-style parliamentary systems. The assembly has 125 members elected first past the post from single-member districts.
Guinea elects on the national level a head of state—the president—and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people through a two-round system. The National Assembly has 114 members, elected for five-year terms, 38 members in single-seat constituencies and 76 members by proportional representation.
The National Assembly, formerly known as the Chamber of Deputies, is the unicameral legislative branch of the government of Djibouti.
The Parliament Building of Quebec is an eight-floor structure and is home to the National Assembly of Quebec, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The Parliament Building was designed by architect Eugène-Étienne Taché in a Second Empire style and built between 1877 and 1886, in the heart of Quebec's Parliament Hill. The National Assembly first met there on March 27, 1884, even though the building was only fully completed two years later, on April 8, 1886. From the 1910s to the 1930s, the government built several adjacent buildings to expand its office spaces, creating a parliamentary complex, of which the Parliament Building is the main edifice. This structure is a successor of several earlier buildings, the earliest of which was built in 1620 and among which there were two other parliament houses that served as legislatures.
The National Assembly is the Parliament, representing the legislative branch of government in Suriname. It is a unicameral legislature. The assembly has been situated in the former park house at the Independence Square in Paramaribo, after a fire destroyed the old building of representation on 1 August 1996. A reconstruction of the old building was completed in 2022.
The unicameral National Assembly is Benin's legislative body.
The National Assembly consisted of the bicameral legislature of the Republic of Haiti, consisting of the upper house as the Senate and the lower house as the Chamber of Deputies. Both assemblies conduct legislative sessions at the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.
Chamber of Deputies was a parliamentary body in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries:
The Democratic Movement is a centre to centre-right political party in France that is characterised by a strong pro-European stance. MoDem was founded by François Bayrou to succeed the Union for French Democracy (UDF) and contest the 2007 legislative election, after his strong showing in the 2007 presidential election. Initially named the Democratic Party, the party was renamed "Democratic Movement", because there was already a small Democratic Party in France. The party holds a pro-European stance.
Bernard Brochand is a French politician who was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2001 to 2002. He represented the 8th constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes department, as a member of the Republicans. His constituency covered the Riviera resort of Cannes.
David Habib is French politician who has served as a member of the National Assembly for Pyrénées-Atlantiques's 3rd constituency since 2002. A member of the Socialist Party, Habib was the vice-president of the National Assembly from October 2019 to June 2022. He also served as mayor of Mourenx from 1995 to 2014 and general councillor of Pyrénées-Atlantiques from 1992 to 2002.
Tapura Huiraatira is a political party in French Polynesia. It was founded on 20 February 2016 by members of Tahoera'a Huiraatira, a parliamentary coalition in the Assembly of French Polynesia, as well as other smaller parties such as Fetia Api.
Frédéric Petit, is a French engineer and politician. He is belonging to the Democratic Movement. Since 19 June 2017, he serves as a member of the French National Assembly where he represents the Seventh constituency for French residents overseas.
Jean-Noël Barrot is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who has been serving as the Secretary of State for European Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal since 2024. He previously was Minister for Digital Transition and Telecommunications (France) in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from 2022 to 2024.
Amélie de Montchalin is a French politician who has been serving as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of France to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 2022.
Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo is a French pharmacist and politician of the Horizons party who briefly served as Minister of Health and Prevention in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from 2023 to 2024. From the 2017 elections to 2022, she was a member of the National Assembly, representing the Seine-Maritime's 7th constituency.
Jean-Louis Thiériot is a French politician and essayist who has represented the 3rd constituency of the Seine-et-Marne department in the National Assembly since 2018. A lawyer by occupation, he is a member of The Republicans (LR).
Marie-France Lorho is a French politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the 4th constituency of Vaucluse since 2017. A member of the League of the South (LS), she is currently its sole representative in Parliament.
Women are able to be Members of Parliament in France; in the National Assembly. Women have been able to be involved in French legislative political life since 1945.
