Modelled on the French Conseil constitutionnel, so it is a council rather than a court and individuals cannot petition it directly โ a referral by a listed official or a bloc of legislators is required. It ruled on the dissolution proceedings affecting the Cambodia National Rescue Party in 2017.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- constitutional
- Court type
- Constitutional review body
- Jurisdiction
- Review of the constitutionality of laws and treaties on referral by the King, the Prime Minister, the President of either chamber, or a tenth of the members of either chamber; and resolution of electoral disputes.
- Seat
- Phnom Penh
- Established
- 1998
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