(Initiative for revision)
The President of the Republic or one third of the Members of the National Assembly
in full exercise of their office shall be responsible for initiating a revision of the
Constitution.
Article 234
(Passage and enactment)
1. Alterations to the Constitution shall be approved by a two-thirds majority of
Members in full exercise of their office.
2. The President of the Republic shall not refuse to enact the Constitutional
revision law, although he shall have the authority to request a prior review by
the Constitutional Court.
3. Alterations to the Constitution which are approved shall be collected together
in a single revision law.
4. The new text of the Constitution shall be published together with the revision
law.
Article 235
(Time limits)
1. The National Assembly may review the Constitution five years after it has
come into force or five years after the last ordinary revision.
2. The National Assembly may assume extraordinary revision powers at any
time, on the basis of a decision by a two-thirds majority of Members in full
exercise of their office.
Article 236
(Material limits)
Alterations to the Constitution must respect:
a) The dignity of the human person;
b) National independence, territorial integrity and unity;
c) The republican nature of the government;
d) The unitary nature of the state;
e) Essential core rights, freedoms and guarantees;
f) The state based on the rule of law and pluralist democracy;
g) The secular nature of the state and the principle of the separation of
church and state;
h) Universal, direct, secret and periodic suffrage in the election of
officeholders to sovereign and local authority bodies;
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