The parliamentary committee on constitutional revision is set to present its proposals for approval, but it is far from certain that any of those will actually be enacted.
According to the agreed upon timetable, the committee will finish its work by July 15 and present its proposals to the speaker in early August. He, in turn, will schedule two votes, one month apart: one in early August, one in early September.
In order for an article to be revised, the proposal must get 151 votes, a simple majority, in this Parliament, and three fifths (180) in the one following the next election – or vice versa.
Given that the opposition has said it will not vote for the government’s proposals, it is all but certain that all such will pass by simple majority, as the ruling conservatives have 155 seats. The next Parliament is expected to be as fragmented, or even more so; thus the likelihood of finding 180 votes is very small.
POLITICS CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION
