The Constitutional Court last month annulled a commission for proposed reforms that would let the current president, Faustin-Archange Touadera, 65, stand for a third presidential poll.
The already twice-elected Touadera government earlier this month issued a decree telling 28 higher education officials born between 1946 and 1955 to retire from Dec. 31.
On that list was Constitutional Court president Daniele Darlan, a 70-year-old lawyer, jurist, and former university professor who was appointed the court’s president in 2017.
But in a letter to the government on Wednesday, she noted that constitutional judges serve a seven-year mandate that cannot be ended without the court's consent.
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