constituteproject.org PDF generated: 17 Jan 2014, 16:43 Article 72 The Government is held to furnish to the Parliament, in the forms specified by the law, all the explanations that have been demanded of it[,] of its management and of its acts. Article 73 The Prime Minister makes[,] once per year, during the course of the November session, a report to the National Assembly concerning the activity of the Government during the past year and presents [expose] the general outlines of his program for the coming year. Article 74 The Prime Minister is, severally [solidairement] with his Ministers, responsible before the National Assembly. The commencement of the political responsibility results from the question of confidence or from the motion of censure. The Prime Minister, after deliberation of the Council of Ministers, engages [engage] before the National Assembly the responsibility of the Government on his program and eventually on a declaration of general policy. The National Assembly engages [met en cause] the responsibility of the Government by the vote of a motion of censure. A motion of censure deposited by a Deputy must expressly bear the title and the signature of its author. Such a motion is only receivable if it is signed by at least one-third (1/3) of the members of the National Assembly. The vote can only take place forty-eight (48) hours after the deposit of the question of confidence or of the motion of censure. Article 75 The vote of no confidence or the adoption of a motion of censure results in [entraîne] the immediate resignation of the Government. These [such a vote or motion] may only be acquired [with] the majority of the Deputies composing the National Assembly, [and] only the votes of no confidence or the votes favorable to the motion of censure are counted. The resigned Government continues to manage the current affaires until the nomination, by the President of the Republic, of a new Prime Minister and of a new Government. If a motion of censure is rejected, its signatories cannot propose a new one during the course of the same session, except in the case specified in the following paragraph. The Prime Minister, after deliberation of the Council of Ministers, engages the responsibility of the Government before the National Assembly on the vote of a text. In this case, this text is considered adopted, except if a motion of censure, deposited in the following twenty-four hours, is voted within the conditions specified in the first paragraph of this Article. The Prime Minister has the faculty to demand to the Senate for the approval of a declaration of general policy. Article 76 The cloture of the ordinary or the extraordinary sessions is by right delayed in order to permit, the case arising, the application of the provisions of Article 75 of this Constitution. Mauritania 1991 (rev. 2012) Page 16