tions which may replace it, the procedure contemplated by section 143 of this Constitution shall not apply. The initiative shall lie instead with the appropriate historic institution (órgano foral), whose decision must be taken by the majority of its members. The initiative shall further require for its validity the ratification by a referendum expressly held to this end and approval by the majority of votes validly cast.
2. If the initiative does not succeed, it may only be repeated during a further term of office of the competent Foral body and, in any case, after the minimum period laid down in section 143 has elapsed.
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Cities of Ceuta and Melilla143, 144 CThe cities of Ceuta and Melilla may set themselves up as Self-governing Communities if their respective City Councils so decide in a resolution adopted by the overall majority of their members and if the Cortes Generales so authorise them by an organic act, under section 144.
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Priority in examination of several draft Statutes by Parliament146, 151.2 C
136-138 SOWhere several draft Statutes are referred to the Constitutional Committee of the Congress, they shall be considered in the order in which they are received. The two month period referred to in section 151 shall be counted from the moment in which the Committee completes its study of the draft or of the drafts that it has successively examined.
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Dissolution of provisional autonomous bodies143, 146, 147.2 c) 151.2, 152.1, Trans. Prov. 1 CThe provisional self-government bodies shall be considered to be dissolved in the following cases:
a) Once the bodies provided for by the Statutes of Autonomy passed in conformity with the Constitution have been set up.
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