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ARTICLE 139. The Economic and Social Council shall give its opinion on Government bills, ordinances or decrees as well as on the private bills which are submitted to it. Government bills of a program with an economic or social character shall be obligatorily submitted to it for advice. The President of the Republic may consult the Economic and Social Council on any problem of an economic, social, cultural, scientific and technical nature. The Economic and Social Council may, on its own initiative in the form of a recommendation, draw the attention of the National Assembly and of the Government to reforms of the economic and social order which appear to it to be consistent with or contrary to the general interest. Upon the demand of the Government, the Economic and Social Council shall designate one of its members to set forth before the Committees of the National Assembly the opinion of the Council on Government bills or private bills which have been submitted to it.