a) Legislating on internal organisation;
b) Electing its President, Vice-Presidents and Chairpersons on the basis of an
absolute majority of all Members present;
c) Forming the Standing Committee and Special, Ad Hoc and Parliamentary
Inquiry Committees;
d) Any other powers attributed to it by organisational law and other
parliamentary legislation.
Article 161
(Political and legislative competencies)
Within the political and legislative sphere, the National Assembly shall be
responsible for:
a) Approving amendments to the Constitution, under the terms of this
Constitution;
b) Approving laws on all matters, except those reserved by the Constitution for
the President of the Republic;
c) Granting the President of the Republic authorisation to legislate and
considering authorised Presidential legislative decrees for the purposes of
determining whether they should be amended or cease to remain in force,
under the terms of the law;
d) Considering provisional Presidential legislative decrees, for the purposes of
determining whether they should be converted into laws;
e) Approving the State Budget;
f) Setting and altering the political and administrative divisions of the country,
under the terms of the Constitution and the law;
g) Granting amnesties and general pardons;
h) Pronouncing on the possibility of President of the Republic declaring a state
of siege or emergency;
i) Pronouncing on the possibility of President of the Republic declaring a state
of war or making peace;
j) Proposing to the President of the Republic that referendums should be held
on relevant matters of national interest;
k) Approving for ratification and signing treaties, conventions, agreements and
other international instruments involving matters within its absolute
legislative responsibility, in addition to treaties to which Angola is a party
involving international organisations, the rectification of borders, friendship,
cooperation, defence and military affairs;
l) Approving withdrawal from treaties, conventions, agreements and other
international instruments;
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