Malian parliamentary election, 2007
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A parliamentary election was held in Mali on 1 July 2007 and 22 July. In the first round, there were about 1,400 candidates for 147 seats in the National Assembly.
The parliamentary election followed the April 2007 presidential election, in which President Amadou Toumani Touré won a second term with 71.20% of the vote.
The election was conducted on the basis of candidate lists for each electoral district. 535 lists were deposited with the Constitutional Court in May: 125 joint lists for parties running candidates on the same list, another 278 lists for individual parties, and a further 132 independent lists. Five lists were rejected by the Constitutional Court on May 31: three independent lists (one in Tominian and two in Goundam), one joint list for the Alliance for Democracy in Mali (ADEMA), the Union for the Republic and Democracy (URD), and the Party for National Rebirth (PARENA) in Nioro du Sahel, and one joint list for the Patriotic Movement for Renewal (MPR) and URD in Mopti.
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta of the Rally for Mali (RPM) and Oumar Mariko of the African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence (SADI), both of whom were defeated in the 2007 presidential election, stood as candidates in the parliamentary election: Keïta in Commune IV in Bamako, where 17 lists competed for the two available seats in the first round, and Mariko at the head of a list in Kolondieba. PARENA leader and 2007 presidential candidate Tiébilé Dramé was running on the ADEMA-URD-PARENA list in Nioro du Sahel that was rejected by the Constitutional Court on May 31. In rejecting this list, the Court said that one of the candidates on the list, Cheickna Hamala Bathily, had multiple birthplaces recorded.
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