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Preamble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
TITLE I: OF THE GENERAL PROVISIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 1: Of the State and Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Section 1: Of the State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Section 2: Of Sovereignty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2: Of Nationality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
TITLE II: OF HUMAN RIGHTS, OF FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS AND OF THE
DUTIES OF THE CITIZEN AND OF THE STATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 1: Of Civil and Political Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 2: Of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 3: Of Collective Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 4: Of the Duties of the Citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
TITLE III: OF THE ORGANIZATION AND OF THE EXERCISE OF POWER . . . . . . 18
Chapter 1: Of the Institutions of the Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Section 1: Of the Executive Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Paragraph 1: Of the President of the Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Paragraph 2: Of the Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Paragraph 3: Of Provisions Common to the President of the Republic and to the Government . 24
Section 2: Of the Legislative Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Paragraph 1: Of the National Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Paragraph 2: Of the Senate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Paragraph 3: Of Immunities and of Incompatibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Paragraph 4: Of the Rights of National Deputies and of Senators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Paragraph 5: Of the End and of the Suspension of the Mandate of National Deputy or of
Senator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Paragraph 6: Of the Functioning of the National Assembly and of the Senate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Section 3: Of the Relations Between the Executive Power and the Legislative Power . . . . . . . . 32
Section 4: Of the Judicial Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Paragraph 1: Of General Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Paragraph 2: Of the Jurisdictions of the Judicial Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Paragraph 3: Of the Jurisdictions of the Administrative Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Paragraph 4: Of the Military Jurisdictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Paragraph 5: Of the Constitutional Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Section 5: Of Public Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Paragraph 1: Of General Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Paragraph 2: Of the Central Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Paragraph 3: Of the Court of Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011)
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