SECTION 26

(1) Bills shall be passed by Parliament. (2) The following shall be reserved to the Legislative Power: (a) The fundamental rights, guarantees and obligations of the citizen: 1. safeguarding individual freedom and security; 2. the rules governing public freedoms; 3. labour legislation, trade union legislation, rules governing social security and insurance; 4. the duties and obligations of the citizen in respect of national defence requirements. (b) The status of persons and property ownership system: 1- nationality, status of persons, matrimonial system, succession and gifts; 2- rules governing civil and commercial obligations; 3- movable and immovable property ownership system. (c) The political, administrative and judicial organization: 1- rules governing the election of the President of the Republic and elections into the National Assembly, the Senate, Regional and Local Bodies and referendum operations; 2- rules governing associations and political parties; 3- the organization, functioning, powers and resources of regional and local authorities; 4- general rules governing the organization of national defence; 5- judicial organization and the creation of various types of courts; 6- the definition of felonies and misdemeanours and the institution of penalties of all kinds, criminal procedure, civil procedure, measures of execution, amnesty. (d) The following financial and patrimonial matters: 1. rules governing the issue of currency; 2. the budget; 3. the creation of duties and the determination of their basis of assessment, rates and methods of collection; 4. land tenure, State lands and mining; 5. natural resources. (e) Programming the objectives of economic and social action. (f) The system of education.