TITLE XIV. OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS
CHAPTER I. OF THE GENERAL NORMS
Article 267. Constitutional reform
The reform of the Constitution can only be made in the form indicated in it and can never be suspended or annulled by any power or authority, or by popular acclamations.
Article 268. Form of government
No modification to the Constitution can concern the form of government that must always be civil, republican, democratic and representative.
Article 269. Initiative of constitutional reform
This Constitution can be reformed if the proposal for reform is presented in the National Congress with the support of the third part of the members of one or the other chamber, or if it is submitted by the Executive Power.
CHAPTER II. OF THE NATIONAL REVISORY ASSEMBLY
Article 270. Convocation for the National Revisory Assembly
The need for the constitutional reform shall be declared by a law of convocation. This law, which cannot be the object of observations by the Executive Power, will order the meeting of the National Revisory Assembly, it will contain the object of the reform and will indicate the one or the several Articles of the Constitution which it concerns.
Article 271. Quorum of the National Revisory Assembly
In order to resolve with regards to the proposed reform, the National Revisory Assembly will meet within the fifteen days following the publication of the law that declares the need for the reform, with the presence of more than half of the members of each one of the chambers. Their decision will be taken by the majority of the two-thirds part of the votes. The constitutional reform cannot be initiated in case of the validity of any of the states of exception set forth in Article 262. Once the reform has been voted and proclaimed by the National Revisory Assembly, the Constitution will be published in its entirety with the reformed texts.
Article 272. Approbatory referendum
When the reform concerns the rights, fundamental guarantees and duties, the territorial and municipal order, the regimes of nationality, citizenship and foreigners, the regime of the currency, and concerning the procedures of reform instituted in this Constitution, it will require for ratification the majority of the citizens [masculine] and citizens [feminine] with electoral right, in an approbatory referendum convoked to such effect by the Central Electoral Board, once it has been voted and approved by the National Revisory Assembly.
Paragraph I
The Central Electoral Board will submit to referendum the reforms within sixty days following its formal reception.
Paragraph II
The approval of the reforms to the Constitution by way of referendum requires more than half of the votes of the voters and that the number thereof exceeds thirty percent (30%) of the total number of citizens [masculine] and of citizens [feminine] that integrate the Electoral Registry, the total being the voters that express themselves either for the “YES” or for the “NO”.
Paragraph III
If the result of the referendum should be affirmative, the reform will be proclaimed and published in its entirety with the reformed texts by the National Revisory Assembly.
