Representatives confirm the constitutionality of the law establishing the Constitutional Court

The House of Representatives issued a statement rejecting a ruling issued by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court regarding the law establishing the Constitutional Court.

In response to calls from the Presidential Council to reconsider this law, the statement said, “The ruling of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court is considered non-existent, because it was issued before the law establishing the Supreme Constitutional Court was passed by the House of Representatives.”

He added: “The appeal against the law was submitted on December 12, 2022, and the ruling was issued on March 5, 2023, while the House of Representatives approved the law on March 29, 2023. Therefore, the court’s decision preceded the issuance of the law by 24 days.”

The House of Representatives explained that “the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court should have ruled not to accept the appeal because it was filed prematurely,” noting that “this chamber stopped working for a full period of seven years (from 2014 to 2021), making it a suspended judiciary.”

The House of Representatives criticized “the Supreme Court’s claim that it does not have jurisdiction to issue the law establishing the Constitutional Court,” stressing that “this law is the first of its kind in the transitional phase, and that establishing a specialized judiciary at this stage is necessary to control matters in the country and avoid repeating mistakes.”

The House of Representatives stressed “its keenness on the independence and immunity of the judiciary,” stressing that “the Presidential Council does not have any powers to comment on the work of the House of Representatives elected by the people.”