Confidence and supply (29) Opposition (28) Member State of the Arab League The National Assembly (Arabic: الجمعية الوطنية, romanized: al-Jamʻīyah al-Waṭanīyah; Pulaar: 𞤀𞤧𞤢𞥄𞤥𞤦𞤫𞤤𞤫 𞤲𞤺𞤫𞤲𞤲𞤣𞤭, romanized: Asaambele ngenndi; Wolof: Ëttu Ndawi réew) is the unicameral legislative house of the Parliament of Mauritania.

The legislature currently has 176 deputies, elected for five-year terms in electoral districts or nationwide proportional lists.

After the 2008 military coup, the Union for the Republic has been the dominating force of the National Assembly until it was rebranded as the Equity Party (El Insaf) in 2022.

[1] In 1961 this Assembly amended the constitution to change the country's political system from a parliamentary republic to a presidential one.

[1] The 176 deputies are elected by two methods (with Mauritanians being able to cast four different votes in a parallel voting system); 125 are elected from single- or multi-member electoral districts based on the departments (or moughataas) that the country is subdivided in (which the exception of Nouakchott, which has been divided in three 7-seat constituencies based on the three regions (or wilayas) the city is subdivided in instead of the single 18-seat constituency that was used in 2018),[2] using either the two-round system or proportional representation; in single-member constituencies candidates require a majority of the vote to be elected in the first round and a plurality in the second round.