The Constitutional Revision Commission will meet on July 27 in Praia to reach a consensus and establish a final accord between the PAICV and the MpD for the much-awaited revision of Cape Verde’s Constitution. The announcement comes from the commission’s president, José Manuel Andrade, who confirms that conversations on the issue have already begun.

According to Andrade, the members of the Constitutional Revision Commission will approve a final report to be sent to the National Assembly by August 4, when the commission’s mandate ends. The proposal will then be placed on the parliamentary agenda for debate and a final vote.

Andrade affirms that the negotiation process between the PAICV and the MpD was re-initiated on July 21 with a meeting of the Constitutional Revision Commission, following a consultation between Andrade himself and the other members of the commission. According to Andrade, the meeting’s main purpose was to take inventory of the main points of divergence between the proposals coming from the two political parties.

The president of the commission guarantees that the new conversations will focus on the fundamental issues that remain without consensus in the Constitutional Revision Commission, including the makeup and election of the High Council of Judicial Magistrates, the possibility of the dissolution of the government with a single motion of censure, the manner in which taxes and other fiscal obligations are approved, the officialization of the Cape Verdean language, the extradition of Cape Verdean citizens, Cape Verde’s adherence to the Rome Treaty on the International Penal Court, nighttime home searches in cases of organized crime and several other areas.