constituteproject.org PDF generated: 17 Jan 2014, 16:43 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. Article 101 However, the bill of revision is not presented to referendum when the President of the Republic decides to submit it to the Parliament convoked in congress; in this case, the Bill of revision is only approved if it receives [réunit] the majority of the three-fifths (3/5) of the suffrage expressed. The Bureau of the Congress is that of the National Assembly. Mauritania 1991 (rev. 2012) Page 25