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    "country": "CG",
    "country_name": "Republic of the Congo",
    "date": "2027-07-25",
    "date_status": "tentative",
    "kind": "runoff",
    "conditional": "Held only in constituencies where no candidate won an absolute majority of votes cast in the first round on 11 Jul 2027 (electoral law art. 66); the candidate with the most votes then wins. In 2022 only the two leading candidates of each such constituency took part (Council of Ministers report, 20 Jul 2022). The date is not set by law: the government convenes the second round by decree after the first-round results (2022: decree of 20 Jul for 31 Jul). Both dates are tentative; see republic-of-the-congo-legislative-2027 for the working.",
    "timezone": "Africa/Brazzaville",
    "status": "scheduled",
    "last_verified_at": "2026-09-25T12:00:00Z",
    "stale": false,
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    "provenance": {
      "from": "researcher agent 2026-09-25: Constitution of 25 Oct 2015 (JO special edition 8-2015, sgg.cg) arts. 109, 115, 129, 162, 165, 177; Loi n° 9-2001 portant loi électorale (2001 text, ACE) and Loi n° 19-2017 amending arts. 79, 101, 103 (ACE); Décret n° 2022-398 and Arrêté n° 6779 (JO 30-2022, sgg.cg); Constitutional Court decisions 010 and 011/DCC/EL/L/22 (JO 31-2022, sgg.cg) and 042/DCC/EL/L/17 (cour-constitutionnelle.cg); gouvernement.cg Council of Ministers report of 20 Jul 2022 and government list of 24 Apr 2026; AU observation mission report on the 16 and 30 Jul 2017 elections (au.int); Jeune Afrique 18 Jul and 3 Aug 2022; Anadolu 11 Jul and 15 Aug 2022; allAfrica 29 Sep 2022; Les Dépêches de Brazzaville (adiac-congo.com) 17 Aug 2022; allAfrica 5 Sep 2026",
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        "key": "republic-of-the-congo-legislative-2027-r2/assemblee-nationale",
        "name": "National Assembly",
        "body": "legislature-lower",
        "seats": 151,
        "polls_close_utc": "2027-07-25T17:00:00Z",
        "authority": {
          "id": "cg-interieur",
          "name": "Ministry of the Interior and Decentralisation",
          "name_local": "Ministère de l'Intérieur et de la Décentralisation",
          "role": "ministry",
          "homepage": "https://interieur.gouv.cg/",
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          "from": "2027-07-25T23:00:00Z",
          "by": "2027-08-01T22:59:59Z",
          "confidence": "precedent",
          "basis": "Polls: the electoral law (Loi n° 9-2001 art. 80) sets 07:00-18:00; the AU mission's report on the 2017 elections read the amended art. 80 as closing at 17:00, but on 10 Jul 2022 polls closed at 18:00 local, 17:00 UTC, as announced by the CNEI (Anadolu, 11 Jul 2022). Congo is UTC+1 with no DST. Members of the security forces vote a few days earlier (4 Jul 2022 for the 10 Jul first round). As in the first round, the minister in charge of elections proclaims the results of each constituency (electoral law art. 103), with no statutory deadline. Precedent: 2022, second round Sunday 31 Jul, results made public by the minister on 2 Aug 2022, day 2 (Jeune Afrique, 3 Aug 2022); 2017, second round Sunday 30 Jul, 'résultats proclamés le 2 août 2017 par le ministre en charge des élections', day 3 (Constitutional Court decision 042/DCC/EL/L/17). The opening (start of Monday 26 Jul, local) is an ESTIMATED floor; the window closes at the end of Sunday 1 Aug 2027 local, day 7, four days past the later precedent. Challenges go to the Constitutional Court within 15 days of the proclamation (Loi organique n° 28-2018 art. 59); it rules on challenged seats only, so there is no court-validation stage. 2022: the Court heard the petitions on second-round results in five constituencies on 29 Sep 2022, with its verdict due on 30 Sep (allAfrica / Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 29 Sep 2022). The new Assembly's mandate begins on the second Tuesday after the election (Constitution art. 115): in 2022 its inaugural session was on Tuesday 16 Aug, the second Tuesday after the 2 Aug proclamation (Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 17 Aug 2022). No government stage: the President appoints the Prime Minister with no statutory step tied to this vote. DATE: tentative, 14 days after the tentative first round, as in 2017 (16 and 30 Jul 2017); in 2022 the gap was 21 days (10 and 31 Jul). 25 Jul 2027 is the last Sunday at least 20 days before the current mandate ends on 16 Aug 2027 (Constitution art. 115; working in republic-of-the-congo-legislative-2027)."
        },
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          {
            "stage": "final-result",
            "from": "2027-07-25T23:00:00Z",
            "by": "2027-08-01T22:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "Polls: the electoral law (Loi n° 9-2001 art. 80) sets 07:00-18:00; the AU mission's report on the 2017 elections read the amended art. 80 as closing at 17:00, but on 10 Jul 2022 polls closed at 18:00 local, 17:00 UTC, as announced by the CNEI (Anadolu, 11 Jul 2022). Congo is UTC+1 with no DST. Members of the security forces vote a few days earlier (4 Jul 2022 for the 10 Jul first round). As in the first round, the minister in charge of elections proclaims the results of each constituency (electoral law art. 103), with no statutory deadline. Precedent: 2022, second round Sunday 31 Jul, results made public by the minister on 2 Aug 2022, day 2 (Jeune Afrique, 3 Aug 2022); 2017, second round Sunday 30 Jul, 'résultats proclamés le 2 août 2017 par le ministre en charge des élections', day 3 (Constitutional Court decision 042/DCC/EL/L/17). The opening (start of Monday 26 Jul, local) is an ESTIMATED floor; the window closes at the end of Sunday 1 Aug 2027 local, day 7, four days past the later precedent. Challenges go to the Constitutional Court within 15 days of the proclamation (Loi organique n° 28-2018 art. 59); it rules on challenged seats only, so there is no court-validation stage. 2022: the Court heard the petitions on second-round results in five constituencies on 29 Sep 2022, with its verdict due on 30 Sep (allAfrica / Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 29 Sep 2022). The new Assembly's mandate begins on the second Tuesday after the election (Constitution art. 115): in 2022 its inaugural session was on Tuesday 16 Aug, the second Tuesday after the 2 Aug proclamation (Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 17 Aug 2022). No government stage: the President appoints the Prime Minister with no statutory step tied to this vote. DATE: tentative, 14 days after the tentative first round, as in 2017 (16 and 30 Jul 2017); in 2022 the gap was 21 days (10 and 31 Jul). 25 Jul 2027 is the last Sunday at least 20 days before the current mandate ends on 16 Aug 2027 (Constitution art. 115; working in republic-of-the-congo-legislative-2027).",
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          }
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.sgg.cg/JO/2015/congo-jo-2015-08-sp.pdf",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Constitution of 25 Oct 2015, Journal officiel special edition 8-2015 (Secrétariat général du Gouvernement). Arts. 115 and 129 fix the five-year term and the election window (see the date working in the stage citations); art. 177: the Constitutional Court 'est juge du contentieux des élections législatives'.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/africa/CG/congo-brazzaville-loi-no-19-2017-du-12-mai-2017/view",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Loi n° 19-2017 of 12 May 2017 amending the electoral law (Loi n° 9-2001). Art. 79: polling on a Sunday. Art. 101: the CNEI (Commission nationale électorale indépendante) sends the provisional results to the Constitutional Court and the minister in charge of elections. Art. 103: 'Les résultats des élections législatives ... transmis par la commission nationale électorale indépendante sont proclamés par le ministre chargé des élections sous réserve du contentieux électoral.' The law was amended again by Loi n° 50-2020 of 21 Sep 2020, whose text we could not read online (the sgg.cg Journal officiel issues for Sep 2020 do not carry it).",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.sgg.cg/JO/2022/congo-jo-2022-30.pdf",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Precedent only: Journal officiel 30-2022 (28 Jul 2022). Décret n° 2022-398 of 20 Jul 2022 convened the second round (security forces 26 Jul, general vote 31 Jul 2022) and cites Décret n° 2022-245 of 6 May 2022 for the first round with the local elections (4 and 10 Jul 2022). Arrêté n° 6779: second-round campaign 21-29 Jul 2022. The 2027 decrees are not published.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.sgg.cg/JO/2022/congo-jo-2022-31.pdf",
            "role": "court-validation",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Precedent only: Journal officiel 31-2022 (4 Aug 2022), Constitutional Court decisions on the 2022 legislative election. Decisions 010 and 011/DCC/EL/L/22 quote art. 59 of Loi organique n° 28-2018 (as amended by LO 57-2020): a deputy's election 'peut être contestée devant la Cour constitutionnelle dans les quinze (15) jours à compter de la proclamation des résultats du scrutin par le ministre chargé des élections', and state that the first-round results were proclaimed on 15 Jul 2022.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://cour-constitutionnelle.cg/decisions/contentieux-electoral",
            "role": "court-validation",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Constitutional Court electoral-dispute decisions (index). On 25 Sep 2026 it listed the 2017 legislative decisions (most dated 29 Sep 2017) but not the 2022 ones, which are in the Journal officiel.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://gouvernement.cg/compte-rendu-du-conseil-des-ministres-du-20-juillet-2022/",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
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            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Precedent only: Council of Ministers report of 20 Jul 2022. The minister of territorial administration submitted the decree convening the second round 'pour les deux candidats en lice ayant obtenu le plus grand nombre de suffrages exprimés au premier tour' in each constituency still undecided: security forces 26 Jul, general vote 31 Jul 2022.",
            "check": null
          },
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            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2027_Republic_of_the_Congo_parliamentary_election",
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            "url": "https://interieur.gouv.cg/",
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            "kind": "emb_home",
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