Senegal 2001 Constitution (reviewed 2016) - Page 11 of 11

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TITLE XII. OF REVISION

Article 103

The initiative of the revision of the Constitution belongs concurrently to the President of the Republic and to the Deputies.

The Prime Minister can propose to the President of the Republic a revision of the Constitution.

The bill or the proposal of revision of the Constitution must be adopted by the National Assembly following the procedure provided for by Article 71 of this Constitution. The revision is definitive after having been approved by referendum.

However, the bill or the proposal are not presented to referendum when the President of the Republic decides to present it to the National Assembly.

In this case, the bill or the proposal is only approved if it meets [réunit] the majority of three-fifths (3/5) of the suffrage expressed.

Articles 65 and 77 are not applicable to constitutional laws.

The republican form of the State, the mode of election, the duration and the number of consecutive mandates of the President of the Republic may not be made the object of a revision.

Paragraph 7 of this Article may not be made the object of revision.