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The Amendment under examination can be characterized as a piece of ad homines constitutional legislation. While the Amendment is drafted in general terms, in reality it concerns 139 individually identifiable deputies. This constitutes a misuse of the constitutional amendment procedure: its substance amounts to a sum of decisions on the lifting of immunity of identifiable parliamentarians; decisions which, according to the suspended Article 83, should have been taken individually and subject to specific guarantees.