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Paragraph 24
 

In the 2015 Joint Opinion, the OSCE/ODIHR and the Venice Commission concluded that a priori, the initiative for the referendum mentioned in Article 114 par 1 would be subject to the procedure of Article 114 par 3 (meaning that it should not only be adopted by a two-thirds majority but also following at least three readings with two months’ intervals between each reading). At the same time, the Joint Opinion stressed that since this question remained somewhat unclear, the Constitutional Chamber may need to decide on this issue.