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• Legal status of treaties
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Article 97
Agreements or Treaties properly ratified or approved, take precedence, once
published, over laws, on the condition, for each Agreement or Treaty, of its
application by the other parties.
• Constitutional court powers
• Legal status of treaties
Article 98
If the Constitutional Court of the Transition, referred to by the Head of State of the
Transition, the Prime Minister, the President of the National Council of the
Transition or by a third (1/3) of National Councilors, declares that an international
commitment contains a clause that is contrary to the Constitutional Charter of the
Transition, the authorization to ratify or approve the international commitment
cannot take place until the Constitutional Charter of the Transition has been revised.
Title XI: Of Revision
• Constitution amendment procedure
Article 99
The initiative of revision of this Constitutional Charter of the Transition belongs to
the Government together with two-thirds (2/3) of National Councilors, after
obtaining the assent of the Mediator of the Central African crisis.
Article 100
Revision occurs when the project on which is based the request for assent has been
voted by the National Council of the Transition with a majority of three-quarters
(3/4) of its existing members.
• Unamendable provisions
Article 101
The following provisions are excluded from any revision:
• The secular and republican nature of the State;
• The ineligibility of the Head of State of the Transition, of the Prime
Minister, of members of the Government of the Transition and of the
members of the Bureau of the National Council of the Transition to stand
for the presidential and legislative elections organized during the
Transition;
• The ineligibility of Constitutional Judges of the Transition and of members
of the High Council of Information and Communication of the Transition to
stand for presidential and legislative elections;
• The irrevocability and reduction of the Prime Minister’s powers;
• The incompatibilities to the functions of Head of State of the Transition,
Prime Minister of the Transition, President of the National Council of the
Transition, Constitutional Judge of the Transition and member of the High
Council of Information and Communication of the Transition;
• The fundamental rights and freedoms of the citizen;
• This article.
Central African Republic 2013
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