Submitted by 21 deputies, the bill aims to provide Tunisia with its Constitutional Court. The text still awaits its referral to the Commission of General Legislation.
The parliamentary group of “free” at the Assembly of People’s Representatives (ARP) tabled, on July 15, 2025, a bill relating to the creation of the Constitutional Court.
21 signatory deputies
The text has been signed by 21 deputies and remains, to date, awaiting examination by the office of the Parliament to be transmitted to the Commission of General Legislation.
In a declaration granted this Monday, July 28, in Mosaic FM, the president of the group, Saber Masmoudi, stressed that this initiative is part of the will of the deputies to “complete the institutional state of the State”, while ensuring the compliance of the project with the provisions of the Constitution.
The deputy also presented the main lines of chapters IV and V of the bill, which define the skills of the court. These include control of the constitutionality of laws, the finance law and any constitutional revisions.
Saber Masmoudi said that the project was designed in a spirit of respect for the institutional balance and implementation of constitutional mechanisms, while calling for a consensus around this essential body.
An unanswered institutional project
The implementation of the Constitutional Court is an institutional project in suspense for several years in Tunisia. Planned by the various post-revolution constitutions, its realization has been delayed several times for political and legal reasons. Its creation is regularly claimed, in particular to supervise the functioning of powers and ensure the control of constitutionality of the texts.
