{{use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox constitution | document_name = Constitution of Seychelles | image = | image_alt = | caption = | orig_lang_code = | title_orig = | jurisdiction = Seychelles | subordinate_to = | date_created = | date_ratified = 18 June 1993 | date_effective = 23 June 1993 | system = Presidential republic | branches = | chambers = National Assembly | executive = President of Seychelles | courts = Supreme Court of Seychelles | federalism = | electoral_college = | number_entrenchments = | date_legislature = | date_first_executive = | date_first_court = | date_repealed = | number_amendments = | date_last_amended = | location_of_document = | commissioned = | writer = | signers = | media_type = | supersedes = Constitution of Seychelles (1979) |Image=First copy of the Creole version of the Constitution.jpg|image_caption=First copy of the Constitution in Seychellois Creole.}} {{Politics of Seychelles}} The '''Constitution of Seychelles''' ({{Langx|crs|Konstitisyon Sesel}}, {{Langx|fr|Constitution des Seychelles}}) is the governing document of the Republic of Seychelles.
18 June, the anniversary of its ratification, is celebrated in Seychelles as "Constitution Day".<ref>{{cite web |title=Africa :: Seychelles |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/seychelles/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110114046/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/seychelles |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 January 2021 |work=The World Factbook |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |access-date=29 May 2020 |language=en |date=20 May 2020}}</ref><ref name="scnation">{{cite web |last1=G. |first1=G. |title=Seychelles' Constitution is 25 years old |url=http://www.nation.sc/archive/259293/seychelles-constitution-is-25-years-old |website=Seychelles Nation |publisher=National Information Services Agency |access-date=29 May 2020 |language=en |date=16 June 2018}}</ref> Until 2015, it was also considered Seychelles' National Day, which now corresponds to the nation's {{Ill|Seychelles' Independence Day|lt=|ca|Dia de la Independència de les Seychelles}}.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 June 2022 |title=29 juin : la fête nationale des Seychelles |trans-title=June 29: Seychelles' National Day |url=https://www.bibliomonde.fr/lalmanach/29-juin-independance-seychelles |access-date=2026-05-04 |website=Bibliomonde |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
== History == {{further|History of Seychelles|Politics of Seychelles}} Following a successful referendum on 26 March 1979, a new constitution for the country, drafted by Philip Telford Georges, went into effect.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1979-03-26 |title=Seychelles Is Reported to Adopt Constitution for One‐Party State |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/27/archives/seychelles-is-reported-to-adopt-constitution-for-oneparty-state.html |work=The New York Times |page=14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=60. Seychelles (1976-present) |url=https://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/sub-saharan-africa-region/seychelles-1976-present/ |website=University of Central Arkansas |access-date=29 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref> This constitution made Seychelles a one-party state with the sole candidate for president nominated by the ruling party.<ref>{{cite web |title=Seychelles: Constitution and politics |url=https://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/seychelles/constitution-politics |website=The Commonwealth |publisher=Commonwealth Secretariat |access-date=29 May 2020 |language=en |archive-date=19 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619084030/https://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/seychelles/constitution-politics |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Towards the end of 1991, Seychelles began a process to become a multi-party democracy. Discussions and public debates between the major political parties (namely the Seychelles People's Progressive Front and Seychelles Democratic Party) began to take place in January 1993. Following a referendum which took place on 18 June 1993, the current constitution of Seychelles was approved.<ref name="scnation" /> Up until 2022, it had received 10 amendments, passed by National Assembly and reviewed by the Constitutional Court. The 10th amendment, issued in 2022, was the only one questioned until that point, particularly by the Seychelles Human Rights Commission, the Ombudsman and the Bar Association of Seychelles.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Joubert-Lawen |first=Rita |editor-last=Bonnelame |editor-first=Betymie |title=10th amendment of Constitution: formal motion filed to Seychelles’ Constitutional Court |url=https://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/public/index.php/articles/17549/10th-amendment-of-constitution-formal-motion-filed-to-seychelles-constitutional-court |url-status=live |access-date=2026-05-04 |website=Seychelles News Agency |language=en |publication-place=Victoria}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
== Further reading == {{refbegin}} * {{cite journal |title=The 1979 constitution for Seychelles |journal=Commonwealth Law Bulletin |date=13 August 2010 |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=1329–1332 |doi=10.1080/03050718.1979.9985562 |language=en}} * {{cite web |title=A brief history of Seychelles |url=http://nationalassembly.sc/index.php/about-us-2/about-us/ |website=The National Assembly of Seychelles |access-date=29 May 2020 |language=en |archive-date=31 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231160936/http://nationalassembly.sc/index.php/about-us-2/about-us/ |url-status=dead }} * {{cite encyclopedia |last=Sparks |first=Donald Lee |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |title=Seychelles (Government And Society) |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Seychelles/Government-and-society |access-date=29 May 2020 |edition= |date=4 October 2019 |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. |language=en-GB }} {{refend}}
== External links == * {{cite web |title=The Constitution of the Third Republic of Seychelles |url=https://www.nationalassembly.sc/publications/others/constitution-third-republic-seychelles |website=The National Assembly of Seychelles |language=en |date=30 October 2020}} * {{CIA World Factbook|article=Seychelles}} * [https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Seychelles_2011.pdf Constitution of Seychelles] (with 2011 amendments) * [https://wipolex.wipo.int/fr/legislation/details/9115 Constitution de la République des Seychelles] {{in lang|fr}}
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