ARTICLE 189.
Section 218 is amended as follows:
The initiative for constitutional revision belongs concurrently to:
1. to each of the Houses of Parliament on the initiative of half of its members;
2. to a fraction of the Congolese people, in this case 100,000 people, expressing themselves through a petition addressed to one of the two Chambers.
Each of these initiatives is submitted to The National House of Representatives and the Senate which decide, by an absolute majority of each Chamber, on the merits of the project, proposal, or petition for revision.
However, the initiative for constitutional revision is also recognized by a fraction of the Congolese people, in this case 500,000 people, expressing themselves through a petition addressed to the President of the Republic.
The revision is only definitive if the project, proposal, or petition is approved by referendum upon convocation by the President of the Republic.
However, the project, proposal or petition is not submitted to referendum when The National House of Representatives and the Senate meeting in Congress approve it by a majority of three-fifths of the members composing them.
ARTICLE 190.
Section 219 is amended as follows:
No constitutional revision may take place during a state of war, a state of emergency or a state of siege, nor during the interim presidency of the Republic nor when The National House of Representatives and the Senate are prevented from meeting. assemble freely.
ARTICLE 191.
Section 220 is amended as follows:
The republican form of the State, the principle of universal suffrage, the representative form of Government, the number and duration of mandates of the
President of the Republic, the independence of the judiciary, political and union pluralism cannot be the subject of any constitutional revision.