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Of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic
Article 99
The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic has its main mission to see the
strict compliance with the legality and other provisions by all the organs of the State,
the regions, provinces, districts, and municipalities, as well as the citizens and
foreigners living in the Country.
Article 100
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2.
• Establishment of constitutional court
The Attorney General of the Republic and the Adjunct General Attorneys
are appointed and dismissed by the President of the Republic.
The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic is governed by an
organic statute.
Chapter VI: Of the Constitutional Tribunal
Article 101
• Constitutional court selection
• Constitutional court term length
1.
• Constitutional court powers
• Constitutional interpretation
2.
• Constitutionality of legislation
• Right to amparo
• Municipal government
• Referenda
Equatorial Guinea 1991 (rev. 2012)
The Constitutional Tribunal is composed of a President and four members
appointed by the President of the Republic; two of them upon proposal of
the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate respectively. The period of the
Members of the Constitutional Tribunal will be of seven years.
The Constitutional Tribunal is competent:
a. To review the recourses [recursos] of unconstitutionality of the laws.
b. To review the recourses of constitutional amparo against the
provisions and acts that violate the rights and freedoms recognized in
the Fundamental Law.
c. To proclaim the definitive results of the Presidential, Legislative,
Municipal Elections and the Operations of Referendum.
d. To declare the permanent physical or mental incapacity that constitute
a legal impediment for the fulfillment of the functions of the President
of the Republic, of the Vice President of the Republic, of the President
of the Chamber of the Deputies and of the President of the Senate.
e. To make decisions of binding character, in relation to the
constitutional legality of the regulatory development of the
institutional laws.
f. To review the conflicts between the constitutional organs.
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