Legal provisions for direct democracy at the local level

Constitution 2010

Article 149.

The President of the Republic negotiates and ratifies the international engagements.

The peace treaties, the treaties of commerce, the treaties or agreements relative to the international organization, those that engage the finance of the State, those that modify the provisions of a legislative nature, those that are relative to the status [l’état] of persons, those that include cession, exchange or adjunction of territory, may only be ratified or approved by a law.

No cession, no exchange, no adjunction of territory may take place without the consent by way [voie] of referendum of the concerned populations.