Article 127
No procedure of revision can be undertaken or pursued if it carries affects to the integrity of
the territory. The republican form and the secular [form] of the State cannot be made the
object of a revision.
TITLE XV
TRANSITORY AND FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 128
This Constitution enters into force from the day of its promulgation.
Article 129
The President of the Republic-elect enters into [his] functions, and the National Assembly
meets within a time period of six months counted from this promulgation. Until the President
of the Republic-elect enters into [his] functions, the President of the Republic in exercise and
the Government of transition take the measures necessary for the functioning of the public
powers, for the life of the Nation, for the protection of persons and of property and to
safeguard the freedoms. However, the President of the Republic assuming the transition
cannot, in any fashion and in whatever form that may be, modify the Constitution, the
Electoral Code, the law concerning the Political Parties and Groups and the law establishing
the regime of associations and of the press.
Article 130
Until the implementation of the other Institutions, the Institutions established continue to
exercise their functions and attributions conforming to the laws and regulations in force.
Article 131
For the elections of the year 2000, the Supreme Court exercises the functions of control and of
verification devolved by this Constitution to the Constitutional Council within the conditions
established by law, and receives, in solemn audience, the oath of the President of the
Republic.
Article 132
Civil and penal immunity is granted to the members of the National Committee of Public
Salvation (C.N.S.P.) and to all of the authors of the events having brought about the change of
regime [which] intervened [on] 24 December 1999.
Article 133
The legislation presently in force in Côte d’Ivoire remains applicable, save [with] the
intervention of new texts, if it contains nothing contrary to this Constitution.