TITLE X. OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
Article 152
A High Court of Justice is instituted.
The High Court of Justice is composed by Deputies and Senators elected in an equal number by their peers, and of members of the Supreme Court equally elected by their peers.
The High Court of Justice is presided over by the President of the Supreme Court.
Article 153
The High Court of Justice is competent to judge the President of the Republic in the case of high treason.
Article 154
The members of the National Assembly and of the Senate, the Ministers and the members of the Supreme Court and the members of the Constitutional Court are justiciable before the High Court of Justice for the acts qualified as crimes and misdemeanors committed in the exercise of their functions. They may only be impeached by the Parliament meeting in Congress, deciding by a vote in secret ballot by the majority of the two-thirds of their members.
Article 155
The coauthors and the accomplices of the persons referred to in Articles 153 and 154 are equally justiciable before the High Court of Justice without it being necessary that the act of impeachment concerning them emanates from the Parliament.
Article 156
An organic law determines the organization, the composition and the functioning of the High Court of Justice.
