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Article 131
 

1. The Constitutional Court decides on:



a) compatibility of the law with the Constitution or with international agreements as provided for in Article 122;
b) compatibility of international agreements with the Constitution, prior to their ratification;
c) compatibility of normative acts of the central and local bodies with the Constitution and international agreements;
ç) conflicts of competencies between powers, as well as between central government and local government;
d) constitutionality of the parties and other political organizations, as well as their activity, according to Article 9 of this Constitution;
dh) dismissal from duty of the President of the Republic and verification of his inability to exercise his functions;
e) issues related to the electability and incompatibility in exercising the functions of the President of the Republic, members of the parliament, officials of the other organs mentioned in the Constitution, as well as to the verification of their election.
ë) constitutionality of the referendum and verification of its results;
f) final examination of the complaints of individuals after all effective legal means for the protection of those rights have been exhausted against the acts of the public power or judicial acts impairing the fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, unless provided elsewhere by the Constitution.



2. The Constitutional Court, in case it is set a motion to control the constitutionality of a law approved by the Assembly on the revision of the Constitution, according to article 177, it controls only the compliance with the procedural requirements foreseen in the Constitution.