TITLE XV. OF REVISION
Article 161
The initiative of the revision of the Constitution belongs concurrently:
- to the President of Faso;
to the members of the National Assembly with the majority; to the people when a function of at least thirty thousand persons having the right to vote, introduces before the National Assembly a petition constituting a written and signed proposal.
Article 162
The law establishes the conditions of the implementation of the procedure of revision.
Article 163
The bill of revision is, in every case, submitted preliminarily to the evaluation [appréciation] of the National Assembly.
Article 164
The bill of the text is then submitted to referendum. It is considered to have been adopted when it has obtained the majority of the suffrage expressed.
The President of Faso then proceeds with its promulgation in the conditions established by Article 48 of this Constitution.
However, the bill of revision is adopted without recourse to referendum if it is approved by a majority of three-quarters of the members of the National Assembly.
Article 165
No bill or proposal of revision of the Constitution is receivable when it effects:
- the limitative clause of the number of presidential mandates;
the duration of the presidential mandate; the republican nature and form of the State; the multiparty system; the integrity of the national territory.
No procedure of revision may be initiated or pursued in case of vacancy of the power, during the duration of the state of siege or of the state of urgency or when it infringes upon the integrity of the national territory.
