Legal provisions for optional referendums at national level

Djibouti's Constitution of 1992 (last amended in 2010)

Article 33.

The President of the Republic can, after consultation of the President of the National Assembly and of the President of the Constitutional Council, submit any Bill of law to referendum.

Article 91.

The initiative of revision of the Constitution belongs concurrently to the President of the Republic and to the Deputies.

For it to be discussed, any parliamentary proposal for revision must be signed by one-third at least of the members of the National Assembly.

The Bill or proposal of revision must be voted with the majority of members of the National Assembly, and only becomes definitive after having been approved by referendum with the simple majority of the suffrage expressed.

Nevertheless, the referendum procedure may be avoided on the decision of the President of the Republic; in this case, the Bill or proposal of revision is only approved if it is adopted with the majority of two-thirds of the members composing the National Assembly.