constituteproject.org PDF generated: 18 Apr 2016, 15:22 Article 194 An organic law establishes the organization and the functioning of the public services of the Central Power, of the Provinces and of the decentralized territorial entities. Chapter 2: Of the Provinces Section 1: Of the Provincial Political Institutions • Subsidiary unit government Article 195 The Provincial Institutions are:   1. the Provincial Assembly;   2. the Provincial Government. Article 196 The Provinces are organized in accordance with the principles provided by Article 3 of this Constitution. The territorial subdivisions interior to the Provinces are determined by an organic law. • Subsidiary unit government Article 197 [Amended by Law No. 11/002 of 20 January 2011.] The Provincial Assembly is the deliberative organ of the Province. It deliberates in the domain of the competences reserved to the Province and controls the Provincial Government as well as the provincial and local public services. It legislates by way of edict. Its members are called Provincial Deputies. They are elected by universal, direct and secret suffrage or designated [cooptés] for a mandate of five years, renewable. The number of the designated Provincial Deputies may not exceed a tenth of the members composing the Provincial Assembly. Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Constitution, the provisions of Articles 100, 101, 102, 103, 107, 108, 109 and 110 are applicable, mutatis mutandis, to the Provincial Assemblies and to their members. When a grave and persistent political crisis threatens to interrupt the regular functioning of the provincial institutions, the President of the Republic can, by an ordinance deliberated in the Council of Ministers and after agreement with the Bureaus of the National Assembly and of the Senate, dissolve the Provincial Assembly. In this case, the Independent National Electoral Commission organizes the provincial elections within a time period of sixty days counting from the dissolution. Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011) Page 51