68. The Court recalls that the power of the constituent bodies to legislate or execute derives from universal suffrage. In the present case, the 27 January 2014 Constitution was drafted and adopted by a Constituent National Assembly comprising two hundred and seventeen (217) members elected by direct universal suffrage on 23 October 2011. It comprised twenty-eight (28) political parties15 and sixteen (16) independent members. By voting in the election of 23 October 2011, the Tunisian people exercised their sovereign right by delegating to the members of the Constituent National Assembly the power to draft the new Constitution. 69. On this point, the Court finds that the people participated indirectly in the drafting of the 27 January 2014 Constitution. 70. With regard to the people’s participation in the adoption and promulgation of the 27 January 2014 Constitution, the Applicant submits that it is the 1959 Constitution that should have governed the transfer of power and the holding of a referendum in the event of a constitutional amendment. To this end, the Court notes that the 27 January 2014 Constitution is not an amendment to the 1959 Constitution but a completely new Constitution. Based on this finding, the Court holds that the provisions of the 1959 Constitution relating to the holding of a referendum in the event of a constitutional amendment did not apply in the present case. At the time, the 1959 Constitution was no longer in force insofar as it had been suspended and replaced by the Constituent Law of 16 December 2011. 71. The Court notes that, according to the tenets of constitutional law, the procedures for adopting and promulgating a new Constitution are spelt out 15 The groups are : Mouvement Ennahda (90) ; Congrès pour la République (30) ; Forum Démocratique pour le Travail et les Libertés (21) ; Al Aridha populaire pour la liberté, la justice et le développement (19); Parti Démocrate Progressiste (17) ; Pôle Démocratique Moderniste (5) ; Parti l'Initiative (5) ; Afek Tounes (4) ; Al badil thawri PCOT (3) ; Mouvement des Démocrates Socialistes (2) ; Mouvement des Patriotes Démocrates (2) ; Mouvement du Peuple Haraket Achaab (2) ; L'Indépendant (2) ;Union Patriotique Libre (1) ; Parti du Néo-Destour (1 ) ; Parti de la Nation, Culturel et Unioniste (1) ; Mouvement du Peuple Unioniste Démocrate (1) ; Parti de la Lutte Progressiste (1) ; Parti de l'Equité et de l'Egalité (1) ; Parti Démocrate-social de la Nation (1) ; Parti Libéral Maghrébin (1) ; Fidélité aux Martyrs (1) ; Liste l'Espoir (1) ; Voix Libre (1) ; Parti de la Lutte Sociale (1) ; Liste pour le Front National Tunisien (1) ; Liste de la justice (1) ; liste de la fidélité (1). 19