Rights
1991 Constitution suspended in substance by the 2022 Charte de la Transition
The 1991 Constitution remains formally in force but is subordinated to the Charte de la Transition adopted after the January and September 2022 coups. The Charte vests power in a transitional president and a Assemblée législative de transition. The constitutional order is contested and changing, so this entry records the position rather than settled doctrine.
Key rules
- Jurisdiction — The Conseil constitutionnel continues to sit; its jurisdiction over transitional instruments is unsettled.
- Deadline — Transition timetable: repeatedly extended; no reliable fixed date
Governing law
- Constitution du 2 juin 1991as revised
- Charte de la Transition du 1er octobre 2022
- Loi organique sur le Conseil constitutionnel
In practice
Burkina Faso has had two coups in 2022 alone, and the resulting Charte de la Transition operates as a supra-constitutional instrument in practice while leaving the 1991 text nominally intact. Any statement that the 1991 Constitution simply governs would be inaccurate. This topic is marked as under research because the applicable higher law is genuinely indeterminate, not because the material is thin.