Editing Veto (section)

=== Africa ===
[[File:Africa just countries.svg|thumb|Africa]]
*{{flag|Benin}}: The [[President of Benin|president]] can return legislation to the [[National Assembly of Benin|National Assembly]] for reconsideration within 15 days (or 5 days if the legislation is declared urgent).{{sfn|Bulmer|2017|p=19}} The National Assembly can override the veto by passing the legislation once again by an [[absolute majority]].{{sfn|Bulmer|2017|p=19}}<ref name="benin-57">{{Cite constitution | polity = Benin | date = 1990 | article = 57}}</ref> If the president then vetoes the legislation a second time, the National Assembly can ask the [[Constitutional Court of Benin|Constitutional Court]] to rule on its constitutionality. If the Court rules that the legislation is constitutional, it becomes law.{{sfn|Bulmer|2017|p=33}}<ref name="benin-57"/> If the president neither approves nor returns legislation within the prescribed 15- or 5-day period, this operates as a veto, and the National Assembly can petition the Court to declare the law constitutional and effective.<ref name="benin-57"/> This occurred for example in 2008, when [[Boni Yayi|President Yayi]] did not take action on a bill that would set an end date to the "exceptional measures" by which he had kept the National Assembly in session. After pocket-vetoing the bill in this way, the president petitioned the Court for constitutional review.<ref name="dcc08-171"/> The Court ruled that once the deadline for presidential action had passed, only the National Assembly could petition for review, which it did (and prevailed).<ref name="dcc08-171">{{Cite web
  | url = https://courconstitutionnellebenin.bj/old/upload/decision/DCC08-171.pdf 
  | language = French
  | access-date = 2022-06-14
  | title = DCC08-171
  | date = 2008-12-04
  | author = Constitutional Court of Benin
}}</ref>{{further|Politics of Benin}}
*{{flag|Cameroon}}: The [[President of Cameroon|president]] has the power to send bills back to the [[Parliament of Cameroon|Parliament]] for a second reading.<ref name="cameroon-19">{{cite constitution | polity = Cameroon | date =2008 | article = 19}}</ref> This power must be exercised within 15 days.<ref>{{Cite constitution| polity = Cameroon | date = 2008 | article = 31}}</ref> On second reading the bill must be passed by an [[absolute majority]] to become law.<ref name="cameroon-19"/>{{further|Government of Cameroon}}
*{{flag|Liberia}}: The [[President of Liberia|president]] has package, line item and pocket veto powers under Article 35 of the 1986 [[Constitution of Liberia|Constitution]]. The President has twenty days to sign a bill into law, but may veto either the entire bill or parts of it, after which the [[Legislature of Liberia|Legislature]] must re-pass it with a two-thirds majority of both houses. If the President does not sign a bill within twenty days and the Legislature adjourns, the bill fails.{{sfn|Bulmer|2017|p=8}}{{further|Politics of Liberia}}
*{{flag|South Africa}}: The [[President of South Africa|president]] has a weak constitutional veto.<ref>{{Cite web
  | url =  https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2019-11-21-no-sir-the-president-does-not-have-the-power-to-veto-the-copyright-bill/
  | access-date = 2022-06-13
  | title = No Sir, the president does not have the power to veto the Copyright Bill
  | author = [[Pierre de Vos]]
  | date = 2019-11-20
}}</ref> The president can return a bill to the [[National Assembly of South Africa|National Assembly]] if the president has reservations about the bill's constitutionality.<ref name="south-africa-79">{{Cite constitution | polity = South Africa | date = 2012 | article = 79}}</ref> If the National Assembly passes the bill a second time, the president must either sign it or refer it to the [[Constitutional Court of South Africa]] for a final decision on whether the bill is constitutional.<ref name="south-africa-79"/> If there are no constitutional concerns, the president's assent to legislation is mandatory.{{further|Politics of South Africa}}
*{{flag|Uganda}}: The [[President of Uganda|president]] has package veto and item veto powers.<ref name="uganda-91">{{Cite constitution | polity = Uganda | date = 2017 | article = 91}}</ref> This power must be exercised within 30 days of receiving the legislation.<ref name="uganda-91"/> The first time the president returns a bill to the [[Parliament of Uganda|Parliament]], the Parliament can pass it again by a simple majority vote. If the president returns it a second time, the Parliament can override the veto with a two-thirds vote.<ref name="uganda-91"/> This occurred for example in the passage of the Income Tax Amendment Act 2016, which exempted legislators' allowances from taxation.<ref>{{Cite news
  | url =  https://www.independent.co.ug/kadaga-income-tax-amendment-bill-now-law/
  | access-date = 2022-06-13
  | title = KADAGA: Income Tax Amendment Bill is now law
  | newspaper = The Independent|location=Uganda
  | date = 2016-12-22
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book
  | chapter = Interaction Between MPs and Civil Society Is Needed
  | author-first = Agnes 
  | author-last = Titriku
  | editor = R. Stapenhurst 
  | display-editors = etal 
  | title = Anti-Corruption Evidence, Studies in Public Choice 34
  | doi = 10.1007/978-3-030-14140-0_5
| s2cid = 198750839 
 }}</ref>{{further|Politics of Uganda}}
*{{flag|Zambia}}: Under the 1996 constitution, the [[President of Zambia|president]] had an absolute pocket veto: if he neither assented to legislation nor returned it to parliament for a potential override, it was permanently dead.{{sfn|Bulmer|2017|p=31}} This unusual power was eliminated in a general reorganization of the Constitution's legislative provisions in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web
  | url = https://www.parliament.gov.zm/sites/default/files/documents/bills/National%20Assembly%20Bill%2017-2015.PDF
  | year = 2015
  | title = The Constitution of Zambia (Amendment) (N.A.B. 17, 2015)
  | publisher = Parliament of Zambia
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160109092321/https://www.parliament.gov.zm/sites/default/files/documents/bills/National%20Assembly%20Bill%2017-2015.PDF
  | archive-date = 9 January 2016
  | url-status = live
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite constitution | polity = Zambia | date = 2016 | article = 66}}</ref>{{further|Politics of Zambia}}