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The Constitutional Court (French: Cour Constitutionnelle) was established by the Constitution of the Third Republic on 18 February 2006 as the highest constitutional authority in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its role is to ensure the constitutionality of laws and statues created by government officials and organizations.
Alphonsine Kalume Asengo Cheusi (born 1955) is a Congolese magistrate who in October 2020 became the first woman to be selected as a member of the Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Court of Cassation (French: Cour de cassation) is the main court of last resort in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [1] It has its seat in the Kinshasa Palace of Justice. The Court judges final appeals with respect to the "normal" system of justice, excluding cases of administrative justice, which go before the Conseil d'État.
General elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 20 December 2023. Combined elections were held for the President, 484 of the 500 members of the National Assembly, 700 of the 716 elected members of the 26 provincial assemblies, and for the first time under the new constitution, 951 members of a scaled down number of commune (municipal) councils.
He was First President of the Court of Cassation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2003 to 2008 and subsequently President of the Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2015 to 2020.
The National Assembly is elected every five years by universal suffrage.For the 2023 elections 484 seats of the assembly were apportioned among 179 electoral districts based on voter registration numbers.
General elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 30 December 2018, to determine a successor to President Joseph Kabila, [1] as well as for the 500 seats of the National Assembly and the 715 elected seats of the 26 provincial assemblies. [2]
Joseph Kabila Kabange (/ k æ ˈ b iː l ə / kab-EE-lə, French: [ʒozɛf kabila]; born 4 June 1971) is a Congolese politician who served as President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between January 2001 and January 2019.