National Legislature of Sudan | |
House Type: | Bicameral |
Houses: | Council of States (upper house) National Assembly (lower house) |
Leader1 Type: | Speaker (Assembly) |
Leader1: | Vacant |
Election1: | 11 April 2019 |
Leader2 Type: | Speaker (Council of States) |
Leader2: | Vacant |
Election2: | 11 April 2019 |
Members: | 32 + 426 |
Structure1 Res: | 250px |
Structure2 Res: | 250px |
Last Election2: | 2015 Sudanese general election |
Session Room: | File:120593917.fFhXTfR6.SudanDec094632.jpg |
Meeting Place: | Omdurman, Sudan |
Website: | http://www.parliament.gov.sd |
The National Legislature (Arabic: المجلس التشريعي السوداني, Al-Maǧlis al-Ttašriyʿiy) is the legislative branch of the government of the Republic of the Sudan.
Prior to the 2019 coup d'état, the National Legislature was composed of two chambers:
The National Legislature was dissolved on 11 April 2019 following the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir and his National Congress Party in a military coup.[1]
As part of the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy, a Transitional Legislative Council is to be formed which will function as the legislature of Sudan until elections scheduled for 2022.[2]
The seat of the National Legislature is in Omdurman, immediately north-west of the country's capital Khartoum. The building was designed in the style of brutalist architecture by the Romanian architect Cezar Lăzărescu and completed in 1978.[3] It is located on the banks of the White Nile at the confluence with the Blue Nile near the old Omdurman bridge.