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Article 50
No member of the Parliament may be prosecuted, pursued, arrested, detained or judged because of
the opinions or the votes emitted by him during the exercise of his functions.
No member of the Parliament, during the sessions, may be prosecuted or arrested in [a] criminal or [a]
correctional matter without the authorization of the Assembly to which he belongs except in case of
flagrante delicto.
No member of the Parliament may be arrested, outside [a] session, except with the authorization of
the Bureau of the Assembly to which he belongs, except in case of flagrante delicto, of authorized
prosecution or of definitive condemnation.
The detention or the prosecution of a member of the Parliament is suspended if the Assembly to
which he belongs requires it.
Article 51
All imperative mandates are null.
The right to vote of the members of the Parliament is personal.
The organic law can authorize exceptionally the delegation of [the] vote. In this case, no one may
receive the delegation for more than one mandate.
Any deliberation outside the time of the sessions or outside the place of the sitting is null. The
President of the Republic can demand the Constitutional Council to declare this nullity.
The sittings of the National Assembly and of the Senate are public. The report of the debates is
published in the Journal Officiel [Official Gazette].
Each one of the Assemblies can sit in closed session at the demand of the Government or of
one-fourth (1/4) of its members present.
Article 52
The Parliament meets of plain right in two (2) ordinary sessions each year. The first session opens on
the first business [ouvrable] day of the month of October. The second session [opens on] the first
business day of the month of April. The duration of each session may not exceed four (4) months.
Article 53
The Parliament can meet in an extraordinary session at the demand of the President of the Republic
or of the majority of the members of the National Assembly for a determined agenda [ordre du jour].
The length of an extraordinary session may not exceed one month.
The extraordinary sessions are opened and closed by a decree of the President of the Republic.
Article 54
The members of the Government have access to the two Assemblies. They are heard when they
demand it. They may be assisted by commissioners of the Government.
Article 55
The President of the National Assembly is elected for the duration of the legislature.
The President of the Senate is elected after each partial renewal.
Mauritania 1991 (rev. 2012)
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