Constitution

Benin 1990 Constitution

Table of Contents

TITLE XI. REVISION

ARTICLE 154

The initiative for the revision of the Constitution shall belong concurrently to the President of the Republic, after a decision taken in the Council of Ministers, and to the members of the National Assembly.

In order to be taken into consideration, the draft or proposal of revision must be voted by a three-fourths majority of the members composing the National Assembly.

ARTICLE 155

The revision shall be agreed to only after having been approved by referendum, unless the draft or the proposal involved shall have been approved by a four-fifths majority of the members composing the Assembly.

ARTICLE 156

No procedure for revision may be instituted or continued when it shall undermine the integrity of the territory.

The republican form of government and the secularity of the State may not be made the object of a revision.