Article 132

The Constitutional Court exercises the attributions assigned to it by the articles of the Constitution and the provisions of the organic laws. It also rules on the regularity of the election of the members of Parliament and of referendum operations. Organic laws, before their promulgation, and the rules of the House of Representatives and of the House of Councillors, before their implementation, must be submitted to the Constitutional Court, which rules on their conformity with the Constitution. For the same purposes, laws, before their promulgation, may be referred to the Constitutional Court by the King, the Head of Government, the President of the House of Representatives, the President of the House of Councillors, or by one fifth of the members of the House of Representatives or by forty members of the House of Councillors. In the cases provided for in the second and third paragraphs of this article, the Constitutional Court rules within a period of one month from its referral. However, at the request of the government, in the event of urgency, this period is reduced to eight days. In these same cases, referral to the Constitutional Court suspends the period for promulgation. It rules on the regularity of the election of the members of Parliament within a period of one year from the date of expiry of the legal period for appeal. However, the Court may rule beyond this period, by reasoned decision, in cases where the number of appeals or their nature so requires.