Constitution

Republic of the Congo 2015 Constitution

Table of Contents

TITLE X. OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

Article 191

A High Court of Justice is instituted.

The High Court of Justice is composed of Deputies and of Senators elected in [an] equal number by their peers, and of members from [issus] the Supreme Court equally elected by their peers.

The representation of the parliamentarians within the High Court of Justice must reflect, as much as possible, the political configuration of each Chamber of the Parliament.

The High Court of Justice is presided over by the First President of the Supreme Court. The Public Ministry is represented by the Procurator General before [près] the Supreme Court.

Article 192

The High Court of Justice is competent to judge the President of the Republic in the case of grave failure [manquement] in his duties, manifestly incompatible with the exercise of his high function.

Article 193

The members of the National Assembly and of the Senate, the Prime Minister, the Ministers, the members of the Supreme Court and the members of the Constitutional Court, are justiciable before the High Court of Justice, for the acts qualified as crimes or misdemeanors committed in the exercise of their functions. They may only be impeached by the Parliament meeting in Congress deciding by a vote in secret ballot by the majority of the two-thirds of their members.

Article 194

The coauthors and the accomplices of the persons referred to [visées] in Articles 192 and 193 above are equally justiciable before the High Court of Justice, without it being necessary that the act of impeachment concerning them emanates from the Parliament.

Article 195

An organic law determines the organization and the functioning of the High Court of Justice as well as the procedure to be followed.

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