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Government
- English
(1) The highest executive organs are the Federal President, the Federal Ministers and the state secretaries, and the members of the Provincial Governments.
… (Art. 19) - German
(1) Die obersten Organe der Vollziehung sind der Bundespräsident, die Bundesminister und Staatssekretäre sowie die Mitglieder der Landesregierungen.
… (Art. 19)
Government
- EnglishThe President of the Republic appoints the Prime Minister and terminates his functions.
On a proposal of the Prime Minister, he appoints the other members of the Government and terminates their functions.
… (Art. 56) - FrenchLe Président de la République nomme le Premier ministre et met fin à ses fonctions.
Sur proposition du Premier ministre, il nomme les autres membres du Gouvernement et met fin à leurs fonctions.
... (Art. 56)
Government
- English(1) Where there is occasion for the appointment of a Prime Minister, the President shall appoint as Prime Minister—
(a) a member of the House of Representatives who is the Leader in that House of the party which commands the support of the majority of members of that House; or
(b) where it appears to him that that party does not have an undisputed leader in that House or that no party commands the support of such a majority, the member of the House of Representatives who, in his judgment, is most likely to command the support of the majority of members of that House, and who is willing to accept the office of Prime Minister.
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(3) The Ministers other than the Prime Minister shall be such persons as the President, acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister, shall appoint from among the members of the House of Representatives and the Senators.
… (Sec. 76)
Government
- English
1. The Government shall protect and strengthen the sovereignty of the Kingdom, provide good governance, and ensure peace, security, well-being and happiness of the people.
2. The Executive Power shall be vested in the Lhengye Zhungtshog which shall consist of the Ministers headed by the Prime Minister.
… (Art. 20) - Dzongkha
༡) གཞུང་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་རང་བཙན་གྱི་ཉེན་སྐྱོབ་དང་མཐའ་བཙན་ གཞུང་སྐྱོང་ལེགས་ལྡན་ མི་སེར་གྱི་ཞི་བདེ་དང་ བདེ་སྲུང་ བདེ་སྐྱིད་ དགའ་སྐྱིད་ཡོདཔ་ངེས་གཏན་བཟོ་དགོ།
༢) འཛིན་སྐྱོང་གི་དབང་ཚད་དེ་ བློན་ཆེན་གྱིས་འགོ་ཁྲིད་ཐོག་ བློན་པོ་ཚུ་ཚུད་པའི་ལྷན་རྒྱས་གཞུང་ཚོགས་ལུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༢༠༽
Government
- English(1) The Prime Minister shall be appointed by the President and the other Ministers shall be appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister.
… (Art. 75) - Hindi(1) प्रधानमंत्री की नियुक्ति राष्ट्रपति करेगा और अन्य मंत्रियों की नियुक्ति राष्ट्रपति, प्रधान मंत्री की सलाह पर करेगा।
… (अनुच्छेद 75)
Government
- English(1) There shall be a Prime Minister who shall be elected as such by the members of Parliament from amongst their number in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 2 to this Constitution.
(2) There shall be, in addition to the office of Prime Minister, such other offices of Minister of the Government, not exceeding eleven or such greater number as Parliament may prescribe, as may be established by the Governor General, acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister. Provided that one of such offices of Minister of the Government shall be that of Deputy Prime Minister.
(3) The Ministers other than the Prime Minister shall be appointed by the Governor-General, acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister, from among the members of Parliament: Provided that if occasion arises for making an appointment while Parliament is dissolved a person who was a member of Parliament immediately before the dissolution may be appointed. (Sec. 33)
Government
- EnglishThe Government of the Republic of Croatia shall consist of a Prime Minister, one or more Deputy Prime Ministers, and Ministers.
… (Art. 108) - CroatianVladu Republike Hrvatske čine predsjednik, jedan ili više potpredsjednika i ministri.
… (Članak 108)
Government
- EnglishThe Cabinet shall be responsible for advising the President with respect to the policy of the Government and with respect to such other matters as may be referred to it by President. (Art. 68)
Government
- English(1) The Cabinet shall consist of the Prime Minister, who shall be its head, and other Ministers of State, as provided for by law.
(2) The Prime Minister and other Ministers of State must be civilians.
… (Art. 66) - Japanese1 内閣は、法律の定めるところにより、その首長たる内閣総理大臣及びその他の国務大臣でこれを組織する。
2 内閣総理大臣その他の国務大臣は、文民でなければならない。
... (第66条)
Government
- English
The Prime Minister coordinates the action of the Government and sees to the maintenance of the unity of the governmental action. (Art. 91)