m) Promoting the process for bringing proceedings against, and removing from
office, the President of the Republic, under the terms prescribed in Articles
127 and 129 of this Constitution;
n) Any other functions that may be conferred on it by the Constitution and the
law.
Article 162
(Competence for control and scrutiny)
Within the sphere of control and scrutiny, the National Assembly, shall be
responsible for:
a) Striving to ensure that the Constitution is implemented and laws are correctly
executed;
b) Receiving and analysing the General State Accounts and those of other public
institutions as obliged by law, which may be accompanied by a report and
opinion from the Court of Auditors and all the items deemed necessary for
the analysis, under the terms of the law;
c) Analysing and debating the application of a declaration of a state of war,
siege or emergency;
d) Authorising the Executive to contract and grant loans and other lending
operations apart from floating debt operations, defining the general terms and
conditions for such operations and establishing the upper limit for the
guarantees to be given each year to the Executive, within the framework of
approving the State Budget;
e) Analysing Presidential legislative decrees approved during the exercise of
authorised legislative powers, for the purposes of determining whether they
should be ratified or altered.
Article 163
(Competence in relation to other bodies)
With regard to other bodies, the National Assembly shall be responsible for:
a) Electing judges to the Constitutional Court, under the terms of the
Constitution;
b) Electing jurists to the Supreme Judicial Council;
c) Electing the Ombudsman and Deputy Ombudsman;
d) Electing members of electoral administration bodies, under the terms of the
law.
e) Electing members of other bodies whose appointment is entrusted by law to
the National Assembly.
Article 164
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