National Assembly of Cameroon

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The National Assembly (French: Assemblée Nationale) is the parliament of Cameroon. It has 180 members, elected for five-year terms in 49 single and multi-seat constituencies.

On the 10 April 2008 the National Assembly overwhelmingly voted a bill to change the Constitution of Cameroon to provide the President of the Republic with immunity from prosecution for acts as President and to allow unlimited relections of the President (it was previously limited to two terms of seven years) along with a number of other changes. The changes took place after a walk-out of the National Assembly by the opposition SDF representatives and just one month after widespread violence resulting in dozens of deaths and hundreds of arrests protesting price rises and the proposed constitutional changes^[1]^[2]. Five members of parliament voted against the bill. Opposition lawmakers^[3] and at least one member of the ruling party, Cameroon People's Democratic Movement, Hon. Paul Abine Ayah, member for Akwaya, ^[4] criticised the bill as a setback for democracy and the country in general.

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**Summary of the 22 July and 30 September 2007 Cameroonian **National Assembly** election results**
Parties	Seats	+/–
Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (RPDC)	153	+4
Social Democratic Front (SDF)	16	–6
National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP)	6	+5
Democratic Union of Cameroon (UDC)	4	–1
Progressive Movement (MP)	1	+1
Total (turnout 62%)	180	—
Source: AFP (for the first 163 seats) Xinhua (for 17 seats decided in a revote)