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The Constitution (Article 202.1) establishes that a new Constitution and amendments to specific provisions of the current Constitution may be enacted only through a referendum, initiated by at least one third of Members of Parliament (MPs), the government, or 200,000 voters. The constitutional provisions subject to this procedure are reproduced in Article 4.1(2) of the draft law. Amendments to the Constitution under Article 4.1(2) of the draft law are submitted to the Constitutional Court for its ruling on the constitutionality of the proposal (Article 8.2). As constitutional amendments, by definition, exceed the scope of the current Constitution, the scope of review of the Constitutional Court in such instances could be made clearer.