La justiciabilité de la Constitution en droit congolais. Note d’observation sous Cour constitutionnelle (RDC), Matière d’appréciation de la conformité à la Constitution, R. Const. 0038, 28 Août 2015

• Published in: Recht in Afrika
• Main Author: Dieu-Merci Ngusu Masuta
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German; English; French
• Published: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2021
• Subjects: Asia and Eurasia; Africa; Pacific Area; and Antarctica; KL-KWX; Pacific; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5771/2363-6270-2021-1-96; https://doaj.org/article/c35ebe10093c4f8295e8f4b865e3c9fd

The jurisdictional protection of the Constitution is designed to guaranty the affectivity of the legal state in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The fulfillment of this requirement has passed through the establishment of the constitutional Court which received from the Constitution the main competence of knowing the requests related to the conformity of the public authorities’ acts to the Constitution. This paper has tried to determine the effective sweep of this protection by making a criticism-analysis of its juridical base with regard to the judgment of the constitutional Court delivered under R. Const. 0038. By this judgment, the constitutional Court extended its competence to the act that normally should not be submitted to its appreciation. This extension was justified by the need of protecting the human rights and the public liberties furthered in the Constitution. However, it is important to insert in the Constitution this new competence in order to protect the constitutional principles as well as the human rights and the public liberties.