The Recourse to the Power of Constitutional Referral by Algerian Parliamentarians: Main Issues

The Constitutional Court is a constitutional body whose main task is to review the constitutionality of legal texts, this process is carried out either automatically, as provided in the constitution, or by the way of constitutional referral in the eventual cases, the constitutional referral is considered as an essential means to guarantee the conformity of the texts with respect to the constitution, the recently established constitutional revision has brought alleged improvements in constitutional guarantees to ensure the rights and freedoms of individuals, the most important is the subject of the extension of the power of referral to some new authorities called parties, The Prime Minister, forty deputies, twenty five members of the Council of the Nation, and the litigants, in accordance with Articles 193-194 of the Constitution, this research paper attempts to clarify the obstacles that prevent parliamentarians from exercising the power of constitutional referral.