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Assembly Of The Autonomous Island Of Anjouan
The Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan is the island's legislative body. Elections 2004 The Assembly, formed following elections held on 14 and 21 March 2004, has a total of 25 members. Supporters of the Island President, Mohamed Bacar, won 20 seats while supporters of Union President Azali Assoumani won 5. See also *Assembly of the Union of the Comoros *Assemblies of the Autonomous Islands of the Comoros ** Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Grande Comore ** Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Mohéli Politics of the Comoros Political organizations based in the Comoros Government of the Comoros Anjouan Anjouan Anjouan (; also known as Ndzuwani or Nzwani, and historically as Johanna or Hinzuan) is an autonomous high island in the Indian Ocean that forms part of the Union of the Comoros. Its chief town is Mutsamudu and, , its population is around 277,500. ... Anjouan {{Comoros-stub ...
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Anjouan
Anjouan (; also known as Ndzuwani or Nzwani, and historically as Johanna or Hinzuan) is an autonomous high island in the Indian Ocean that forms part of the Union of the Comoros. Its chief town is Mutsamudu and, , its population is around 277,500. The total area of the island is 424 square kilometers (163 square miles). History Early and colonial history The first inhabitants of the island were explorers and immigrants from Indonesia and Polynesia. After that Bantu people arrived. Then people all around the Indian Ocean began to come to Anjouan and the Comoro Islands. In about 1500, the Sultanate of Ndzuwani (Anjouan) was founded, which took over the entire island (for further information see: List of sultans on the Comoros). The sultanate was the most powerful of all the Comorian sultanates. In 1816, Sultan Alawi bin Husain requested French assistance against the Sultanate of Zanzibar which was threatening his domain. The island came under French protection in 1886. France a ...
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Mohamed Bacar
Colonel Mohamed Bacar (born May 5, 1962 in Barakani, Anjouan, then a French colony) is a Comorian former politician who was President of Anjouan, one of the three autonomous islands that make up the Union of the Comoros, from 2001 to 2008. He is a former chief of police on Anjouan and has studied extensively in France and the United States. He was part of a military coup on Anjouan in August 2001 and soon became President. It is alleged he rigged the elections to become the first president of Anjouan in March 2002, in part due to his leading role in the separatist movement. He was ousted by the combined forces of the Government of the Union of Comoros and the African Union in the March 2008 invasion of Anjouan. Presidency disputed On April 26, 2007, the country's Federal Constitutional Court proclaimed the Presidency of Anjouan vacant, declaring Bacar's period in office after his first term ended on April 14 to be illegal. Two days later, Comorian President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, ...
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President Of Comoros
The following is a list of heads of state of the Comoros, since the country gained independence from France in 1975. List of officeholders Timeline Succession Article 58 of the Comorian Constitution states that "in case of absolute absence of a President" the following should happen: * If the absence (death, resignation, etc.) should occur within the first 900 days of the term, the cabinet ministers and other members of the government select among the ministers a "main minister" to serve as Interim President. Elections must also be called in no more than 60 days after the absence of the President occurs; the person who wins those elections will be president for the remainder of the original five-year presidential term. * If the absence should occur beyond the first 900 days of the term, then the Governor of the island currently holding the presidency will assume the presidency until the end of the original five-year presidential term, at which point regular elections are h ...
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Azali Assoumani
Azali Assoumani ( ar, غزالي عثماني; born 1 January 1959) is a Comorian politician and military officer who has served as President of the Comoros since April 2019. He was also president from 2002 to 2006 and 2016 to February 2019. He became head of state after staging a coup d'état in 1999 and was elected president in 2002, 2016 and April 2019. Political career Azali Assoumani became the President of the Council of State of the Comoros in 1999 after overthrowing interim president Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde in a coup d'état. His troops justified the coup on the basis of protecting territorial integrity after Massounde had begun negotiations with representatives of the island of Anjouan for greater autonomy or independence. This was despite the fact that an international conference in Antananarivo had resulted in a settlement on the matter between the three islands of the Comoros, although the government of Anjouan had delayed ratifying the agreement. On 23 December ...
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Assembly Of The Union Of The Comoros
The unicameral Assembly of the Union of the Comoros is the country's legislative body. It was established in 2004. Legislative history The Comorian legislative body, Chamber of Deputies, was established in 1961. It was reconstituted as National Assembly in July 1975. It was followed by the Federal Assembly, which had 33-43 members before year 2004. The name Assembly of the Union was taken into use in 2004. Since 2020, it has had 24 members instead of 33. Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies Presidents of the Assembly See also *Assemblies of the Autonomous Islands of the Comoros **Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan **Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Grande Comore **Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Mohéli *Legislative Branch *History of Comoros *List of national legislatures *Politics of the Comoros References External links

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Assemblies Of The Autonomous Islands Of The Comoros
In March and April 2002, the three islands of the Comoros (Anjouan, Grande Comore, and Mohéli) held and approved new constitutions in referendums. The main points of the constitutions were to establish each island as an autonomous part of the Union of Comoros, along with provisions that created elected local assemblies and presidents. *Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan – 25 members *Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Mohéli – 10 members *Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Grande Comore – 20 members See also *History of Comoros *Assembly of the Union of the Comoros The unicameral Assembly of the Union of the Comoros is the country's legislative body. It was established in 2004. Legislative history The Comorian legislative body, Chamber of Deputies, was established in 1961. It was reconstituted as National ... Politics of the Comoros Political organizations based in the Comoros Government of the Comoros {{Comoros-stub ...
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Assembly Of The Autonomous Island Of Grande Comore
The Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Grande Comore is the island's legislative body. Elections 2004 The Assembly, formed following elections held on 14 and 21 March 2004, has a total of 20 members. Supporters of the Island President, Abdou Soulé Elbak, won 14 seats while supporters of Union President Azali Assoumani won 6. See also *Assembly of the Union of the Comoros *Assemblies of the Autonomous Islands of the Comoros **Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan **Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Mohéli The Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Mohéli is the island's legislative body. The Assembly, formed following elections held on 14 and 21 March 2004, has a total of 10 members. Elections 2004 Supporters of the Island President, Mohamed Said ... Politics of the Comoros Political organizations based in the Comoros Government of the Comoros Grande Comore Grande Comore Grande Comore {{Comoros-stub ...
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Assembly Of The Autonomous Island Of Mohéli
The Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Mohéli is the island's legislative body. The Assembly, formed following elections held on 14 and 21 March 2004, has a total of 10 members. Elections 2004 Supporters of the Island President, Mohamed Said Fazul, won 9 seats while one seat was won by a supporter of Union President Azali Assoumani. See also *Assembly of the Union of the Comoros *Assemblies of the Autonomous Islands of the Comoros **Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan The Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan is the island's legislative body. Elections 2004 The Assembly, formed following elections held on 14 and 21 March 2004, has a total of 25 members. Supporters of the Island President, Mohamed Bacar ... ** Assembly of the Autonomous Island of Grande Comore Politics of the Comoros Political organizations based in the Comoros Government of the Comoros Moheli Mohéli Moheli {{Comoros-stub ...
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Politics Of The Comoros
The Union of the Comoros consists of the three islands Njazidja (Grande Comoros), Mwali (Moheli) and Nzwani (Anjouan) while the island of Mayotte remains under French administration. The Politics of the Union of the Comoros take place in a framework of a federal presidential republic, whereby the President of the Comoros is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Federal legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. The precolonial legacies of the sultanates linger while the political situation in Comoros has been extremely fluid since the country's independence in 1975, subject to the volatility of coups and political insurrection. As of 2008, Comoros and Mauritania were considered by US-based organization Freedom House as the only real “ electoral democracies” of the Arab World. Precolonial and Colonial Political Structures Sultanates in the late nineteenth century use ...
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Political Organizations Based In The Comoros
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including w ...
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Government Of The Comoros
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The major types of political systems in the modern era are democracies, monarchies, and authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Historically prevalent forms of government include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, and tyranny. These forms are not always mutually exclusive, and mixed governme ...
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Comoros Island Assemblies
The Comoros,, ' officially the Union of the Comoros,; ar, الاتحاد القمري ' is an independent country made up of three islands in southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city is Moroni. The religion of the majority of the population, and the official state religion, is Sunni Islam. As a member of the Arab League, it is the only country in the Arab world which is entirely in the Southern Hemisphere. Comoros proclaimed their independence on July 6, 1975. It is also a member state of the African Union, the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'', the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and the Indian Ocean Commission. The country has three official languages: Chi Comori, French and Arabic. The sovereign state consists of three major islands and numerous smaller islands, all in the volcanic Comoro Islands with the notable exception of Mayotte. Mayotte voted against ind ...
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