DRC: President of the Constitutional Court re-elected for a three-year term

 Kinshasa,  July 8^th, 2025 (CPA) – The president of the Constitutional Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been re-elected by his peers for a second three-year term following a plenary election meeting, the CPA has learned from the communications unit of this high court. ‘The judges of the Constitutional Court have renewed their confidence in their colleague Dieudonné Kamuleta Badibanga for a second three-year term at the head of this high court,’ it is read. According to the same source, this election was held in accordance with Article 9 of the Organic Law on the Organisation of the Constitutional Court, which stipulates that: « The President of the Court shall be elected by his peers for a three-year term, renewable once under the conditions determined by the Rules of Procedure. He shall be invested by order of the President of the Republic. It should be recalled that Dieudonné Kamuleta Badibanga was elected for his first term on June 21st 2022 as President of the Constitutional Court by his peers at the end of an elective plenary assembly. He thus succeeded Dieudonné Kaluba, who had left the Court following a draw with Judge Prince Funga Molima and the late Polycarpe Mongulu. The re-elected President of the Constitutional Court is a career magistrate, former advisor to the Court of Cassation and judge at the Constitutional Court since July 17^th, 2020.