Legal provisions for agenda initiatives at national level

CONSTITUTIONOF ROMANIA

(Adopted 1991; lastamended 2003)

http://www.cdep.ro/pls/dic/site.page?id=371

TitleIII: Public Authorities

ChapterI: Parliament; Section 3:Legislation

Article74: Legislative Initiative

(1)A legislative initiativeshall lie, as the case may be, with the Government, Deputies, Senators, or anumber of at least 100,000citizens entitled to vote. The citizens who exercise their right to alegislative initiative must belong to at least one quarter of the country'scounties, while, in each of those counties or the Municipality of Bucharest, atleast 5,000 signatures should be registered in support of such initiative.

TitleVII: Revision of the Constitution

Article150: Initiative of revision

(1)Revision of the Constitution may be initiated by the President of Romania onthe proposal of the Government, by at least one quarter of the number ofDeputies or Senators, as well as by at least 500,000 citizens with the right tovote.