Immunity of members of Parliament and their prosecution

(1) No member of Parliament may be prosecuted, pursued, arrested, detained or judged for his or her opinion expressed or vote cast in the exercise of his or her duties. (2) No member of Parliament suspected of a felony or misdemeanour may be prosecuted or arrested without the authorisation of the Chamber of which he or she is a member by a two-thirds majority vote of members present at the sitting of the Plenary Assembly, unless he or she is caught red-handedly committing a felony or misdemeanour. (3) In the case of a period outside the ordinary session, an extraordinary session is convened for this purpose. (4) A member of Parliament definitively convicted of a felony or misdemeanour automatically loses his or her parliamentary office. (5) Each Chamber of Parliament through the organic law determining its functioning may provide for gross misconduct which lead to the removal from office of a member of that Chamber upon approval of its members. In that case, the decision for removal is taken by a three-fifths majority vote of members of the Chamber of Parliament concerned.