constituteproject.org PDF generated: 14 Apr 2014, 20:52 Article 97 The National Commission of the Rights of Man is the independent consultative Institution of promotion and of protection of the Rights of Man. The composition, the organization and the functioning of the National Commission of the Rights of Man are established by an organic law. Title X Of the Territorial Collectivities Article 98 The territorial collectivities are the communes as well as the entities to which the law confers this quality. These collectivities are administered by elected councils in the conditions specified by the law. Title XI Of the Revision of the Constitution Article 99 The initiative of the revision of the Constitution belongs concurrently to the President of the Republic and to the members of the Parliament. No Bill of revision presented by the parliamentarians may be discussed if it has not been signed by one-third (1/3) at least of the members composing one of the Assemblies. Each Bill of revision must be voted by a majority of two-thirds (2/3) of the Deputies composing the National Assembly and two-thirds (2/3) of the Senators composing the Senate, to be able to be submitted to referendum. No procedure of revision of the Constitution can be engaged if it jeopardizes the existence of the State or if it infringes the integrity of the territory, the republican form of the Institutions, the pluralist character of the Mauritanian democracy or the principle of democratic alternation in power and its corollary, the principle according to which the mandate of the President of the Republic is of five years, renewable one sole time, as specified in Articles 26 and 28 above. Article 100 The revision of the Constitution is definitive after have being approved by referendum by a simple majority of the suffrage expressed. Mauritania 1991 (rev. 2012) Page 20