ABSTRACT
The Parliamentary Committee, which prepared the necessary constitutional changes in 1944, was subsequently tasked with continuing its work. A new committee established in 1947 was also supposed to propose a new constitution. The Committee adopted a work schedule, setting out how they intended to proceed and a public consultation plan. The idea was that if parliament adopted the bills, a binding referendum (based on the previously mentioned temporary revision clause) could then be organised in parallel with the presidential elections due in June 2016. The Constitutional Committee agreed at the outset that it would only propose a provision regarding the right of voters to initiate a referendum on newly adopted statutes, and that it would not formulate a provision containing the right to initiate new law. The proposal leaves intact the prerogative of the President to call a referendum on laws adopted by Parliament.
