Article 68 of the Constitution of the United Arab Emirates stipulates that the Federal National Council shall be formed of 40 members. This page provides information on the members of the FNC during the 16th legislative chapter.
Half of the FNC’s members are elected by ‘electoral colleges’, whose members are nominated by the rulers of the emirates. Meanwhile, the other half is appointed. This mechanism was adopted and implemented in 2006, which marked the beginning of the first phase of the Political Empowerment Program of the late Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.