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TITLE VI: OF THE REVISION OF THE
CONSTITUTION
• Constitution amendment procedure
Article 161
No revision of the Constitution may be initiated, except in the case of necessity
judged imperious.
• Referenda
Article 162
The initiative of the revision, in the case of necessity judged imperious, belongs
either to the President of the Republic who decides in the Council of Ministers, or to
the Parliamentary Assemblies deciding by a separate vote by a majority of
two-thirds of the members.
The bill or proposal of revision must be approved by three-fourths of the members of
the National Assembly and of the Senate.
The bill or proposal of revision so approved is submitted to referendum.
Article 163
• Unamendable provisions
The republican form of the State, the principle of the integrity of the national
territory, the principle of the separation of the powers, the principle of autonomy of
the Decentralized Territorial Collectivities, the duration and the number of the
mandate of the President of the Republic, may not be made the object of revision.
The exceptional powers held by the President of the Republic in the exceptional
circumstances or circumstances of political trouble do not confer on him the right of
recourse to a constitutional revision.
TITLE VII: TRANSITIONAL AND DIVERSE
PROVISIONS
Article 164
This Constitution will be adopted by referendum. It will enter into force from its
promulgation by the President of the High Authority of the Transition, within the ten
days following the proclamation of the definitive results of the referendum by the
High Constitutional Court.
Article 165
The legislation in force remains applicable in all the provisions non-contrary to this
Constitution.
The texts with a legislative character relative to the establishment of the institutions
and organs, as well as the other laws of application specified by this Constitution will
be taken by way of ordinance.
Madagascar 2010
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