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Article 172
[Des] Parliamentary groups may be constituted within the National Assembly. The
internal regulations of the National Assembly establish the modalities of the
organization and of the functioning.
• Legislative committees
Article 173
The opposition parties in the National Assembly participate by right in all the
parliamentary commissions, whether they are [qu'il s'agisse] specialized
commissions or commissions of inquiry.
A political party providing a member in the Government may not claim itself [part] of
the opposition.
• Length of legislative sessions
Article 174
The National Assembly meets every year in three ordinary sessions of three months
each. The first session debuts on the first Monday of the month of February, the
second [one] on the first Monday of the month of June and the third [one] on the first
Monday of the month of October.
• Extraordinary legislative sessions
[Des] Extraordinary sessions, not exceeding a duration of fifteen days, can be
convoked at the demand of the President of the Republic or at the demand of the
absolute majority of the members composing the National Assembly, on a
determined agenda.
• Extraordinary legislative sessions
The extraordinary sessions are opened and closed by decree of the President of the
Republic.
• Organic laws
• Quorum for legislative sessions
Article 175
The National Assembly may not deliberate validly except if two-thirds of the
Deputies are present. The laws are voted by the majority of two-thirds of the
Deputies present or represented.
The organic laws are voted by the majority of two-thirds of the Deputies present or
represented, except [sans que] this majority cannot be inferior to the absolute
majority of the members composing the National Assembly.
The majority of two-thirds of the Deputies present or represented is equally
required for the vote of the resolutions, of the decisions and of the important
recommendations.
• Budget bills
Article 176
The National Assembly is referred to the bill of the law of finance from the opening
of the session of October.
• Budget bills
• First chamber reserved policy areas
Article 177
The National Assembly votes the general budget of the State. If the National
Assembly has not decided at the date of December 31, the budget of the preceding
year is resumed [repris] by provisional twelfths.
At the request of the President of the Republic, the Parliament meets in Congress
within a time period of fifteen days to re-examine the bill of the law of finance.
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