Composed of seven justices, it is the body that regulates the functioning of government institutions and the activities of public figures.
Members of the Constitutional Court are ineligible to be Ministers of the Republic, run for elective office, or other public, civil, military or professional work.
Any worker may defend, under the conditions provided for by law, his rights and interests either individually, collectively or through trade union action.
However, the court under Robert Dossou and Joseph Djogbenou have rendered decisions in favor of forbidding strikes from certain categories of workers.
[citation needed] The court was also referred a case by defendants in the Dangnivo Affair, following a long pre-trial detention.