The National Assembly (NA; ) or formally the National Assembly of the Lao People's Democratic Republic () is the
highest power organisation of
Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and ...
. It is the only branch of government in Laos, and per the principle of
unified power
Unified power is the political power principle of communist states, whereby political power, instead of being separated into different branches as Montesquieu called for, is unified, in the state's case, in the highest organ of state power.
This ...
, all state organs are subservient to it. The National Assembly meets in
Vientiane
Vientiane (, ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Laos. Situated on the banks of the Mekong, Mekong River at the Thailand, Thai border, it comprises the five urban districts of Vientiane Prefecture and had a population of 840,000 ...
.
Laos is a
one-party state
A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system or single-party system is a governance structure in which only a single political party controls the ruling system. In a one-party state, all opposition parties are either outlawed or en ...
, with the
Lao People's Revolutionary Party
The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the Laos, Lao People's Democratic Republic. The party's monopoly on state power is guaranteed by Article 3 of the Constitution of Laos, and it ...
as the sole legal party in the country.
Most of the National Assembly's actions
rubber stamp
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the party's decisions.
[ Efforts have been made to increase the capacity of its members, aiming to strengthen their legislative, oversight, and representational capacities.
]
History
The National Assembly was established by the Lao Constitution of 1991.
Elections were held in 2021. The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) took 158 seats in the enlarged 164-member National Assembly while the 6 remaining seats went to independents.
In 2017, construction started on a new National Assembly building, gifted by Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
. The construction was completed in 2021.
Committees
Parliamentary committee
A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly o ...
s of the National Assembly include:National Assembly, 'Status and Roles of the Committees of the National Assembly'
*Law Committee
*Economic, Technology and Environment Committee
*Planning, Finance and Audit Committee
*Cultural and Social Committee
*Ethnic Affairs Committee
*National Defence and Security Committee
*Foreign Affairs Committee
See also
*
Politics of Laos
The politics of the Lao People's Democratic Republic takes place in the framework of a communist state.
Judicial branch
Supreme People's Court
The Supreme People's Court of the Lao People's Democratic Republic was established in 1982. As ou ...
*
President of the National Assembly of Laos
References
External links
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{{Asia topic, Parliament of