The Union for the Republic and Democracy, led by Soumaïla Cissé, won 17 seats, becoming the Opposition.

[2] The elections had originally been planned for 1 and 22 July 2012,[3] but were postponed after the Tuareg Rebellion and the March 2012 coup d'état.

[5] Interim Prime Minister Django Sissoko visited Gao in northern Mali for the first time since the French intervention and rebel takeover in April 2013.

[8] Two days before the second round of the parliamentary election, two Senegalese MINUSMA peacekeepers were killed in a bombing outside the Malian Solidarity Bank in Kidal.

[10] In the second round, out of 5,951,838 registered voters, 2,221,283 cast a vote - with 2,122,449 being valid - totalling a 37.32% turnout, according to the Constitutional Court[11] Issaka Sidibé, an RPM Deputy, was elected as President of the National Assembly on 22 January 2014.