Senate (Burkina Faso)

Senate

le Sénat
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The Senate (French: le Sénat, lit. 'the Senate') is the uncreated upper chamber of Burkina Faso. Though Burkina Faso is currently running under a unicameral legislative system since the dissolution of the Chamber of Representatives, which had served as the upper house of Burkina Faso's former bicameral legislatures in 2002, plans were made to restore the upper house under the name of 'Senate' in the June 2012 constitutional amendments.

This revision was never executed due to an extended and unresolved political confrontation over the Senate's establishment, which left the country effectively with a unicameral legislature as of 2026.

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