TITLE IV. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE LEGISLATIVE POWER AND THE EXECUTIVE POWER
Article 31
In addition to the matters assigned to them by other articles of the Constitution, Union statutes shall determine the rules concerning:
- civic rights and the fundamental guarantees granted to citizens for the exercise of their civil liberties; the obligations imposed upon the person and property of citizens;
the law governing associations and political parties and the status of the opposition; nationality, the status and capacity of persons, family law, inheritance and gifts; the determination of serious crimes and other major offences and the penalties they carry; criminal procedure; amnesty; the setting up of new categories of courts; the base, rates and methods of collection of all types of taxes; the issuing of currency.
Statutes shall also determine the rules governing:
- the administration of customs services;
the management of State lands and of the land registry; the management of publicly funded companies; systems of ownership, property rights and civil and commercial obligations; the system for electing Members of the Assembly of the Union; the setting up of categories of public legal entities; the status of civil servants and members of the Armed Forces and the fundamental guarantees granted to them; nationalization of companies and the transfer of ownership of companies from the public to the private sector; expropriations in the public interest.
Statutes shall lay down the basic principles of:
- the general organization of defense and national security;
the general organization of the administrative, social and financial investigation authorities; education and national public diploma; information and the new information technologies.
Article 32
Matters other than those coming under the scope of statute law shall be matters for regulation.
Article 33
The Assembly of the Union may call one or several Ministers or other members of the Government to account by addressing a petition to the President of the Union. Such a petition shall not be admissible unless it is signed by at least one third of the members of the Assembly of the Union.
Voting may not take place within forty-eight hours after the petition has been tabled. Solely votes cast in favor of the petition shall be counted and the latter can be adopted only by a majority of two thirds of the Members of the Assembly of the Union.
The Assembly of the Union shall not vote on more than two petitions per year, and no petition shall be tabled in the course of an extraordinary session.
The President is under an obligation to terminate the functions of the Minister or Ministers or other members of the Government targeted by the petition. He shall not re-appoint them to ministerial functions in the six months following their dismissal.
