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The Parliament of Ivory Coast is the
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of Ivory Coast. From 1960 to 2016, it was a
unicameral Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one. Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multi ...
body. It became a bicameral body after a new
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was approved by
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on October 30, 2016. The parliament consists of two chambers:
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*The Senate (
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) *The
National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the rep ...
(
lower chamber A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide, the lower house has come to wield more power or oth ...
)


See also

* Politics of Ivory Coast * List of legislatures by country *
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References

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