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The preliminary draft of the new Constitution is submitted to the government for its
advice and amendments. The new draft incorporating the government’s
amendments is then subject to a national workshop to enrich it, and organized in
coordination with the National Council of the Transition. The resulting draft is
presented to the Constitutional Court for its opinion and amended if applicable by
the National Council of the Transition to take into account the Constitutional
Court’s opinion.
The final draft of the Constitution adopted by the National Council of the Transition
is then submitted to the people by way of referendum.
• Legislative committees
• Initiation of general legislation
Article 66
Legislative initiative belongs jointly to the Government of the Transition and to the
National Councilors. Draft laws emanating from the Government, and legislative
proposals emanating from the National Council of the Transition, are filed with the
Bureau of the National Council of the Transition which sends them to be examined
by specialized commissions, the composition and assignment of which are set out by
the rules of procedure of the National Council of the Transition.
Article 67
Draft laws adopted in the Council of Ministers are filed with the Bureau of the
National Council of the Transition by the Government of the Transition to be
examined and adopted.
Article 68
Legislative proposals are filed before deliberation and voting with the Government
of the Transition for advice.
The Government of the Transition has eight (8) days to make its observations known
to the President of the National Council of the Transition.
• Constitutionality of legislation
Article 69
If it comes to light during the legislative procedure that a legislative proposal or an
amendment should not be determined by statute or is contrary to this Constitutional
Charter of the Transition, the Prime Minister, the President of the National Council
of the Transition or one-fifth of National Councilors can raise a plea of irreceivability.
• Advisory bodies to the head of state
Article 70
The Conference of Presidents, extended to members of the Bureau of the National
Council of the Transition and the Government of the Transition, on the initiative of
one or the other, will hold periodic working sessions on questions belonging to the
supreme interest of the Nation.
Article 71
• Advisory bodies to the head of state
The National Council of the Transition controls its own agenda. It is set by the
Conference of Presidents.
The setting, as a priority, of a draft law or legislative or constitutional proposal, to the
National Council of the Transition’s sessions’ agenda, is permitted at the
Government’s request.
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