CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOZAMBIQUE
CHAPTER II
AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION
Article 291
Initiative
1. Proposals to amend the Constitution shall be introduced on the initiative of the
President of the Republic or of at least one third of the deputies of the Assembly
of the Republic.
2. Proposed amendments to the Constitution shall be laid before the Assembly of
the Republic ninety days before the opening of debate.
Article 292
Restrictions as to Subject Matter
Constitutional amendment laws shall have to respect the following:
a) the independence, the sovereignty and the unity of the State;
b) the republican form of Government;
c) the separation between religious denominations and the State;
d) the fundamental rights, freedoms and guarantees;
e) universal, direct, secret, personal, equal and periodic suffrage for the
appointment of elective sovereign public offices and elective offices of
local administration;
f) pluralism of expression and of political organisation, including political
parties and the right of democratic opposition;
g) the separation and interdependence of the sovereign public offices;
h) the scrutiny of constitutionality;
i) the independence of the judiciary;
j) the autonomy of local authorities;
k) the rights of workers and trade unions;
l) the rules governing nationality, which cannot be amended in such a way
as to restrict or remove rights of citizenship.
2. Amendments pertaining to the matters listed in the preceding paragraph must,
obligatorily, be submitted to a referendum.
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