{"id":2583,"date":"2024-02-05T14:10:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T13:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senat.cm\/?page_id=2583"},"modified":"2024-02-05T14:14:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T13:14:06","slug":"president-of-senate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/senat.cm\/?page_id=2583&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"President of Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-592754 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-308792 kc_col-sm-8 kc_column kc_col-sm-8\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-544099 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE ROLE OF THE SENATE PRESIDENT <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Senate President is the second personality of the Republic and provisionally exercises the functions of the President of the Republic in the case of either death, resignation, or incapacitation of the President.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Senate President has no constitutional powers to dissolve the National Assembly nor the organisation of any referendum during the period he presides over the election of a new President in office.<\/p>\n<p>He is usually elected by Senate Members and plays quite a fundamental role in the life of the institution. He is the protagonist who presides over Bureau meetings, Chairmen\u2019s Conference and the harbinger of all deliberations and debates during plenary sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate President could \u00a0be\u00a0 consulted by the President of the Republic in the case of any eventual dissolution of the National Assembly .<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-856508 kc_col-sm-4 kc_column kc_col-sm-4\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-930264 kc_shortcode kc_single_image\">\n\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/senat.cm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/SEN.-NIAT-NJIFENJI-Marcel-scaled.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" \/>    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-2583","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/senat.cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/senat.cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/senat.cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senat.cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senat.cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/senat.cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586,"href":"https:\/\/senat.cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2583\/revisions\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/senat.cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senat.cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ffolder&post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}