constituteproject.org PDF generated: 18 Apr 2016, 15:22 They have the right to a final indemnity equal to six months of their emoluments. The modalities of application of the preceding paragraph as well as the other rights of the Parliamentarians are established by the Internal Regulations of each of the Chambers. Paragraph 5: Of the End and of the Suspension of the Mandate of National Deputy or of Senator [Amended by Law No. 11/002 of 20 January 2011.] • Removal of individual legislators Article 110 [Amended by Law No. 11/002 of 20 January 2011.] The mandate of Deputy or of Senator is ended by:   1. the expiration of the legislature;   2. death;   3. resignation;   4. definitive impediment;   5. permanent incapacity;   6. non-justified and non-authorized absence from more than a quarter of the sittings of a session;   7. exclusion specified by the electoral law;   8. irrevocable sentence to a penalty of penal servitude for an intentional infraction.   9. acceptance of a function incompatible with the mandate of Deputy or of Senator; However, when a National Deputy or a Senator is appointed to a political function incompatible with the exercise of his parliamentary mandate, he is suspended. He reclaims of plain right his parliamentary mandate after the cessation of that incompatible political function. Any cause of ineligibility, at the date of the elections, declared subsequently by the competent judicial authority, results in the loss of the mandate of National Deputy or of Senator. • Replacement of legislators In the cases enumerated above, the National Deputy or the Senator is replaced by the first substitute, or in default [of this], by the second substitute. In the case of deficiency of substitute[s], a partial election is organized in the electoral circumscription concerned. The National Deputy, the Senator or the substitute who deliberately leaves his political party during the legislature is deemed to have renounced his parliamentary mandate or that [of] substitution obtained within the order of that political party. Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011) Page 28