Article 59

When the integrity of the national territory is threatened or when events occur that impede the regular functioning of the constitutional institutions, the King may, after consulting the Head of Government, the President of the Chamber of Representatives, the President of the Chamber of Councillors, as well as the President of the Constitutional Court, and after addressing a message to the Nation, proclaim by dahir the state of exception. Consequently, the King shall be empowered to take the measures required by the defence of territorial integrity and the return, within the shortest possible time, to the normal functioning of the constitutional institutions. Parliament may not be dissolved during the exercise of exceptional powers. The fundamental freedoms and rights provided for by this Constitution shall remain guaranteed. The state of exception shall be terminated in the same forms as its proclamation, as soon as the conditions that justified it no longer exist. TITLE IV LEGISLATIVE POWER On the Organization of Parliament