Sunnis are demanding that a constitutional review include more power for the next president.
That law has been blocked in the state courts, however, and will face constitutional review later this year.
Following a constitutional review in 1998, his office was divided and replaced by the Mayor and the council chairman, effective from 1999).
A constitutional review in 1997 introduced a new system, with 71 members.
Although prior to the Sixth Republic, there had been bodies for constitutional review, none of them were active.
He was also a member of the parliamentary select committee on the constitutional review from 1999 to 2004.
The council is responsible for constitutional review, event planning, financial management, public relations and liaison with Laurentian's president's office.
They are private and "therefore traditionally outside the scope" of constitutional review.
A new constitution was agreed in February 2009, following a constitutional review which began in 2001.
It also has some original jurisdiction, and has the power of constitutional review.