EXERCISE OF SOVEREIGNTY
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

 
Art. 27 – National sovereignty belongs to the people who shall exercise it through their representatives at a national Assembly. Such representatives shall be proposed by the National Liberation Front and elected by direct and secret universal suffrage.

 Art. 28 – The National Assembly shall express popular will; it shall enact laws and control governmental action.

Art. 29 – The law shall fix the method of election of deputies at the National Assembly, their number, the conditions of eligibility and the system of incompatibilities.
In case of protest over the fairness of the election of a deputy, a committee of verification of powers and validation provided for in the Rules of Procedure of the assembly shall issue a verdict under the conditions specified therein.

Art. 30 – The loss of mandate by a deputy shall only be pronounced by a two-thirds majority of the members of the National Assembly, and on the proposal of the highest authority of the National Liberation Front.

Art. 31 – A deputy shall enjoy parliamentary immunity during his mandate.

Art. 32 – Except in case of flagrante delicto, no deputy shall be arrested or prosecuted in penal matters without the permission of the National Assembly. The detention or the prosecution of a deputy shall be suspended if the National Assembly so requires.
In case of flagrante delicto, the officers of the Assembly shall be immediately notified of the legal proceedings or measures taken against the deputy. The said Officers may take measures having force of law to apply the principle of parliamentary immunity.
No member of the National Assembly shall be prosecuted, arrested, detained, or tried on account of his opinions or votes expressed during his mandate.

Art. 33 – The National Assembly shall assemble by right before the fifteenth day following the election of its members and shall proceed to the validation of their mandates.
Soon after, it shall elect its Speaker, Officers, and committees.

Art. 34 – The Speaker of the National Assembly shall be the second most important person of the State.

Art 35 – The National Assembly shall fix in its Rules of Procedure, the rules of its organization and functioning.

Art 36 – The President of the Republic and the deputies shall have the right to propose laws.
Bills, private bills or draft resolutions shall be deposited with the Officers of the Assembly who shall refer them for discussion to the relevant parliamentary committees.      

Art 37 – The members of the government shall have access to the National Assembly and its Committees. They shall have the right to intervene in a debate.

Art 38 – The National Assembly shall exercise its control over governmental action through: