The President of the Constitutional Council, Ousmane Chimère Diouf, expressed his views on the decision of the Constitutional Council to convene the ordinary general assembly of the Union of Magistrates of Senegal (UMS). It is an incompetence founded on the Constitution. Ousmane Chimère Diouf recalled that the Constitution confers on the Parliament the power to control the action of the government, but does not give it the power to hear the magistrates. He stressed that “no provision of the Basic Law expressly confers on him the competence to hear the magistrates in the exercise of their functions. I’m not sure. The Magistrate specified that the Règlement intérieur de l’Assemblée, even if it has a valeur de loi organique, cannot modify or contradict the Constitution. He added that such a procedure would be liable to be assimilated to a constraint against the “guardians of individual liberties”. Ousmane Chimère Diouf was also called upon to dispel the myth of a total impunity of magistrates. He recalled that, contrary to popular belief, the Organic Law of 2017 on the Statute of Magistrates provides for the possibility of translating them into a disciplinary council in case of professional negligence, or prosecuting them in case of commission of an offence.
Chimère Diouf reminds the deputies of Pastef on the convocation of magistrates by the parliament: ” The Constitution does not authorize it ”
