Assembly/AU/6(XV) Page 6 Continent, as well as other related activities. The following paragraphs hereunder provide an overview of the situations on the ground, some thematic cross-cutting issues with implications for peace and security in the Continent. a) Situations on the ground (i) Ongoing processes 27. During the review period, efforts geared towards the successful completion of the different peace processes in the Continent continued. Although progress was made in some situations with which the AU was seized, impasses persist in others. 28. In The Comoros, there were positive developments with the signing of the Agreement for the Management of the Interim Period, which ended the crisis linked to the institutional reform introduced by the new Constitution of the Union, adopted by referendum on 17 May 2009. The Referendum Act provided for 4 to 5 years extension of the mandate of the President of the Union, and conferred on the Assembly of the Union and the Councils of the Autonomous Islands, meeting in congress, the constitutional power to set the date for harmonization for the election of the Governors of the Autonomous Islands and that of the President of the Union. On 1 March 2010, the Congress enacted a law harmonizing with effect from 27 November 2011, the mandates of the President of the Union and the Governors of the Islands. That law, which was boycotted by the Comorian opposition, had the effect mainly of extending the tenure of the President of the Union (which expired on 26 May 2010) by 18 months, and postponing for the same period the exercise of the rotating presidency of the Union by the Island of Mohéli, after Grande Comore and Anjouan. 29. Following an unconstitutionality petition filed by the Comorian opposition, the Constitutional Court of the Union of the Comoros, on 8 May 2010, made a ruling which, inter alia, declared unconstitutional and annulled the provisions setting the date of election of the President of the Union and the Governors of the Islands. The Court declared that the interim period would commence with effect from 26 May 2010, a period during which the President and the Vice-Presidents of the Union shall exercise their powers consensually, until the new President of the Union and the elected Governors take office. For his part, the Chairperson of the Commission dispatched his Special Envoy to the Comoros, to assist the parties in overcoming the difficulties they faced in the implementation of the constitutional reform of May 2009. The Commissioner for Peace and Security also visited the Archipelago on two occasions, in April and May 2010. These culminated in an Agreement for the Management of the Interim Period, which was signed in Moroni, on 16 June 2010, by the President of the Union and the Governors of the Autonomous Islands of Anjouan, Ngazidja and Mohéli. The Agreement provided essentially for the organization of harmonized elections for the President of the Union and the Governors of the Islands (7 November 2010 for the 1st round and 26 December 2010 for the 2nd round). The conclusion of this process should lead to the election of a new President native of the Island of Mohéli.