Second Section
POWERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

Article 71

1. The National Assembly shall have the power to decide over all proposals of law that will be submitted before it for approval.
2. The National Assembly shall have the power to decide by 2/3 majority on organizing a People’s Assembly or a plebiscite in the cases provided for by law or if the National Assembly thinks right to do so.
3. The National Assembly lays down its Rules of order. These Rules of Order shall be promulgated by a decision of state.

Article 72
Without prejudice to what is reserved elsewhere in the Constitution for regulation by law, the following subjects shall certainly be determined by law:

a.Treaties, subject to what is determined in article 104;

b.The amending of the Constitution;

c.The declaration or the termination of the state of war, the civil or military state of emergency

d.The determination and change of the political-administrative partitioning of the Republic of Suriname;

e.The determination of the extent and boundaries of the territorial waters and the rights of the Republic of Suriname to the adjacent continental shelf and the economic zone;

f.The creation of a development council for national development;

g.The granting of amnesty or pardon.

Article 73
The socio-economic and political policy to be followed by the Government shall be previously approved by the National Assembly.

EXECUTIVE TASKS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

Article 74
The National Assembly has the following executive tasks:

a.The election of the President and the Vice-President;

b.The proposal for nomination to the President of the chairman and vice-chairman, the members and the surrogate members of the organ charged with the supervision and control of the expenditure of the state finances.