Le premier ministre

The nature of the political regime influences political governance and is a guarantee of political stability as well as peaceful aternance to state power. From this premise, part Geoffroy-Julien Kouao who regrets an executive Ivorian formally three-headed but factually monkeys because of the exclusivity of power to the President of the Republic. And this, against a superabundant Primature for stripped of its prerogatives. "The establishment of the prime minister in the Ivorian and African constitutional and institutional system stems from a political situation. If not in the presidential regime, there is no prime minister. The President of the Republic is the head of government. The Prime Minister comes from Parliament and has full power. In our tropics, he does not direct governmental action, that is to say, national politics, the decree power, the responsibility of the army and the administration. In Ivory Coast, we tried to copy France, but we did not go far. The only power that the Constitution recognizes to the Prime Minister is to coordinate government action, which is purely administrative." He explained. As a solution, the writer proposes either a reinforcement of the presidential system freed from the Primature or the establishment of a constitutional counter-power such as the Parliament before which the President of the Republic is criminally responsible. "The High Court of Justice, which was supposed to play this role of judging the President of the Republic, never existed. Houphouet, Bédié, Guei, Gbagbo and Ouattara have not deigned to implement this constitutional provision." He regrets.