No discussion on the real concerns of the population. No forward-looking proposals to address the security crisis. No consideration for the voluminous Penal Code or the Code of Criminal Procedure. Nor for the important referendum decree. Nothing at all on urgent matters. After three months without meeting, members of the Presidential Council and the government held a Council of Ministers on June 24 that lasted only 25 minutes — just long enough to adopt the draft decrees revising those of March 11, 2020, concerning the Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, as well as the 2025 referendum draft decree.

“We only had two items on the agenda for the Council of Ministers: the draft decrees revising those of March 11, 2020, on the Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the 2025 referendum decree. It took us between 20 and 25 minutes to adopt these two documents,” reported a member of the Presidential Council to Le Nouvelliste.