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The first session shall begin the first Monday in October.
It may not exceed 75 days.
The second session shall begin the first Monday in April and may not exceed a
duration of ninety days.
• Extraordinary legislative sessions
Article 66
The National Assembly shall convene in extraordinary session upon the demand of
the Prime Minister or of the majority of its members to consider a specific agenda.
When the extraordinary session is held at the request of the members of the
National Assembly, the closure decree shall take effect as soon as the National
Assembly has exhausted the agenda for which it was called and at the latest fifteen
days from the date of its convening.
The Prime minister may demand a new session before the expiration of the month
following the closure decree and upon a specific agenda.
• Extraordinary legislative sessions
Article 67
Apart from the cases in which the National Assembly meets by right, extraordinary
sessions shall be opened and closed by decree of the. President of the Republic.
• Leader of first chamber
Article 68
The President of the National Assembly shall be elected for the duration of the
legislature.
• Public or private sessions
• Publication of deliberations
Article 69
The meetings of the National Assembly shall be public. The integrated report of the
debates shall be published in the Official Journal.
TITLE VI: RELATIONS BETWEEN THE
GOVERNMENT AND THE NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY
• Organic laws
• Standing committees
Article 70
The law shall be passed by the National Assembly by a simple majority. However, the
laws to which this Constitution gives the character of organic law shall be passed
under the following conditions:
• the proposition or project shall only be submitted to the deliberation and
vote of the National Assembly after the expiration of a period of fifteen
days after its filing with the Office of the National Assembly;
•
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the text shall only be adopted by an absolute majority of the members
composing the National Assembly. The organic laws shall only be
promulgated after a declaration by the Constitutional Court as to their
conformity with the Constitution.
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