The National Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of the Central African Republic.

The 50-member Legislative Assembly of the CAR (Assemblée législative de la RCA) began its functions in February 1959.

[2] Jean-Bédel Bokassa dissolved the National Assembly in 1966 and imprisoned a number of its deputies.

[2] The legislature of the Central African Republic was previously (at least as of 1990[3]) a bicameral institution known as Congress, of which the National Assembly was the lower house; the upper house was called the Economic and Regional Council (French: Conseil Economique et Regional).

According to the agreement, a national unity government will be formed and a prime minister will be chosen from the opposition parties.