The President of the Republic, Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, affirmed, on Sunday in Algiers, that the in-depth revision of the national legal arsenal aimed to enshrine the rights and freedoms of citizens and to strengthen indivisible human rights gains.
Presiding over the opening of the new judicial year (2025-2026), the President of the Republic addressed the strengthening of the national legal arsenal.
In recent years, “we have introduced new legal texts and begun the in-depth revision of other laws, in accordance with the commitments I have made to uphold ethical standards in public life and fight against abuses and corruption, which harm our religious and cultural values and our national identity,” he said.
In this respect, he emphasized that the major part of this new legal arsenal “aims to directly serve citizens in terms of rights and freedoms, to adapt institutions in this sense and to strengthen human rights, which are indivisible,” by setting up “an environment favoring the adaptation of the legal system to the technological and socioeconomic progress that our country is experiencing.”
“Given our country’s rapid economic development, particularly in the knowledge economy, it is imperative to adapt to developments and to elaborate new laws,” said the President of the Republic, citing the law on the prevention and repression of the use and illicit trafficking of narcotics and psychotropic substances, the law on the prevention and fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism and the law on the protection of natural persons in the processing of personal data.
The President of the Republic also discussed the new code of criminal procedure, which “will confer more efficiency on the judicial power, by guaranteeing legal security, in accordance with the requirements of the fight against crime, protecting rights and freedoms, strengthening the rules of fair trial, facilitating access to justice, encouraging investment and establishing the foundations of economic security in the broad sense.”
The President of the Republic went on to state that “given our country’s rapid development and evolving economic and investment landscape, the elaboration of new laws is necessary, especially since at least 85% of economic transactions are now free, taking place between private operators or between the State and private operators.”
He further called for multiplying commercial courts to resolve the cases that are accumulating, and which “give citizens the false impression of a justice slow in its decisions.”
Emphasizing that the revision of legislative texts aimed to “make it easier to access justice,” the President of the Republic noted that these texts will be “consolidated by complementary texts aimed at framing the initiative in economic, commercial and investment matters, enshrining transparency and integrity and at strengthening the fight against corruption,” a component which, he emphasized, “represents an absolute priority in the approach that we are conducting with unwavering political determination, by relying on the men and women of the justice sector.”
