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Published on 2024-03-12 12:15:42
The Constitutional Council responds to the Democratic Front for an Inclusive Election (FDPEI) which filed a petition yesterday, Monday, with the Supreme Court, seeking the annulment of the decree convening the electoral body for the election on March 24. In its latest decision No. 1/C/2024 of February 15, the Constitutional Council stated that “while it is true that the Supreme Court is the judge of the excess of power of the executive authorities, the Constitutional Council, as the judge of the regularity of national elections, has full jurisdiction in electoral matters, based on Article 92 of the Constitution.”
The seven sages added that “this full jurisdiction gives it the competence to adjudicate on challenges to administrative acts directly contributing to the regularity of a national election, when these acts are specific to that particular election.”
The Constitutional Council stated in its consideration 6 that “the scope of the Constitutional Council’s competence in the control of the constitutionality of laws is limited, in the case of constitutional revision, to verifying compliance with the conditions of adoption, approval, and the temporal and material limits that the Constitution itself sets on the exercise of the powers of the derived constituent.”
The seven sages concluded: “the Constitutional Council is competent to rule on the challenges directed against the aforementioned constitutional law and decree.”
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