TITLE VIII

THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

Article 92: There shall be instituted a High Court of Justice. It shall be composed of members elected from its midst and in equal number by the National Assembly and the Senate, after each complete or partial renewal of these assemblies. It shall elect its president from among its members.

An organic law shall determine the composition of the High Council of Justice, and the rules governing its functioning, as well as the procedure applicable before it.

Article 93: The President of the Republic shall be held liable for the acts committed in the exercise of his duties only in the case of high treason.

He may be impeached only by the two assemblies voting together in a public vote, by an absolute majority of the members; he shall be tried before the High Court of Justice.

The Prime Minister and the members of the government shall be held criminally liable for the acts committed in the exercise of their duties and defined as crimes or misdemeanors at the time they were committed. The procedure defined above is applicable to them as well as to their accomplices, in the case of a conspiracy against the security of the State. In the case set forth in the present paragraph, the High Court of Justice shall be bound by the definition of crimes and misdemeanors, as well as by the determination of sentences resulting from the penal laws in force at the time the acts were committed.