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The Senate and the National Assembly approved, on December 30 and 31, during an extraordinary session, the procedure for revising the Constitution of October 25, 2015. the Parliament has just approved the revision of the constitution of 25 October 2015. The approved revision concerns article 242 and mainly concerns the extension of the duration of state of health emergency, which should pass from twenty to ninety days. Since the discovery of the first case of coronavirus in Congo, in March 2020, the state of health emergency, the constitutional duration of which is twenty days, has already been extended to thirty times. An exercise that the government considers exhausting, painful and expensive, that it has been keen to extend its implementation deadlines in order to adapt it to the reality of the moment. To this end, a procedure had been launched by the President of the Republic, Denis Sassou N’Guesso, in accordance with the prerogatives conferred on him by the Constitution of October 25, 2015. “The Constitution itself provides that its revision can only come from the President of the Republic or from a member of Parliament, whether senator or deputy. And when the President of the Republic takes the initiative, he can directly submit his draft revision to the people through a referendum or submit it to the two chambers of Parliament which will proceed by an internal and democratic vote with a reinforced majority ”, said the Minister of Justice, Human Rights and the Promotion of Indigenous Peoples, Aimé Ange Wilfrid Bininga. For the Keeper of the Seals, the objective is to give the institutions of the Republic the stability possible, a pledge of lasting peace in the country. “In the present case, there is an organic law which fixes the procedure for revising the Constitution which is itself made to be adapted to developments in order to resolve certain priorities which have been observed. This is why it specifies how and through what process should we revise the Constitution to give our institutions hardness and stability ”, he added. The text of the law having been approved, when the time comes, the duration of the state of health emergency should be increased to ninety days, ie a maximum period of three months.

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