Art. 106 - The deputy or the member of the Council of Nation who does not fulfill or
does not fulfill any more the conditions of his eligibility incurs the forfeiture of his
mandate.
This forfeiture is decided according to the case by the People’s National Assembly or the
Council of Nation by the majority of their members.
Art. 107 - The deputy or the member of the Council of Nation commits himself before his
peers who can revoke his mandate if he commits a shameful action for his mission.
The internal rules of each of the two chambers define the conditions of excluding a
deputy or a member of the Council of Nation. The exclusion is decided according to the
case by the People’s National Assembly or the Council of Nation, by the majority of its
members without prejudice to any other common law lawsuits.
Art. 108 - The conditions by which the Parliament accepts the resignation of one of its
members are defined by an organic law.
Art. 109 - Parliamentary immunity is recognized to deputies and members of the Council
of Nation during the period of their mandate.
They cannot be subject to lawsuits, arrest, or in general, to any civil or penal action or
pressure because of opinions they expressed, utterances they made or votes they gave
during the exercise of their mandate.
Art. 110 - Lawsuits cannot be instituted against a deputy or a member of the Council of
Nation for crime or infringement unless there is an explicit renunciation of the concerned
or an authorization according to the case from the People’s National Assembly or the
Council of Nation which decides by the majority of its members to lift the immunity.
Art. 111 - In case of flagrant infringement or flagrant crime, the deputy or the member of
the Council of Nation may be arrested. The bureau of the People’s National Assembly or
of the Council of Nation, depending on the case, is informed immediately.
The informed bureau may ask the suspension of lawsuits and the liberation of the deputy
or the member of the Council of Nation ; it will then be proceeded according to the
provisions of article 110 above mentioned.
Art. 112 - An organic law defines the conditions for the replacement of a deputy or a
member of the Council of Nation in case there is vacancy of his seat.
Art. 113 - The term of the legislative body begins de jure the tenth day following the date
of the election of the People’s National Assembly, under the chairmainship of the oldest
member assisted by the two youngest deputies.
The people’s National Assembly elects its bureau and forms its committees.