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Vice-President

Colombia
  • English
    The Vice President of the Republic will be elected by popular vote on the same day and in the same pairing [fórmula] with the President of the Republic.
    … (Art. 202)
  • Spanish
    El Vicepresidente de la República será elegido por votación popular el mismo día y en la misma fórmula con el Presidente de la República.
    … (Art. 202)

Vice-President

El Salvador
  • English
    To be elected President of the Republic it is required: to be a Salvadoran by birth, [a] child of a Salvadoran father or mother; of secular estate [de estado seglar], over thirty years of age, of notable morality and knowledge; [to] be in the exercise of the rights of citizenship, to have been so for the six years preceding the election and to be affiliated to one of the legally recognized political parties. (Art. 151)
  • Spanish
    Para ser elegido Presidente de la República se requiere: ser salvadoreño por nacimiento, hijo de padre o madre salvadoreño; del estado seglar, mayor de treinta años de edad, de moralidad e instrucción notorias; estar en el ejercicio de los derechos de ciudadano, haberlo estado en los seis años anteriores a la elección y estar afiliado a uno de los partidos políticos reconocidos legalmente. (Art. 151)

Vice-President

Paraguay
  • English
    To be President of the Republic or Vice President, it is required:
    1. to have natural Paraguayan nationality;
    2. to be already thirty years old, and
    3. to be in full exercise of their civil and political rights. (Art. 228)
  • Spanish
    Para ser Presidente de la República o Vicepresidente se requiere:
    1. tener nacionalidad paraguaya natural;
    2. haber cumplido treinta y cinco años, y
    3. estar en pleno ejercicio de sus derechos civiles y políticos. (Art. 228)

Vice-President

Myanmar
  • English

    (b) The Presidential Electoral College shall be formed with three groups of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw representatives as follows :
    (i) group formed with elected Hluttaw representatives in the Hluttaw with an equal number of representatives elected from Regions and States;
    (ii) group formed with elected Hluttaw representatives in the Hluttaw elected on the basis of township and population;
    (iii) group formed with the Defence Services personnel Hluttaw representatives nominated by the Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services for the said two Hluttaws.
    (c) Each group shall elect a Vice-President from among the Hluttaw representatives or from among persons who are not Hluttaw representatives.
    (d) The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and a Body comprising the Heads and Deputy Heads of the two Hluttaws in the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw shall scrutinize whether or not the Vice-Presidents possess the qualifications prescribed for the President.
    … (Sec. 60)

  • Burmese

    (ခ) သမ္မတရွေးချယ်တင်မြှောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ကို ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ် အစုအဖွဲ့သုံးဖွဲ့ဖြင့် အောက်ပါအတိုင်း ဖွဲ့စည်းရမည် -
    (၁) တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများ နှင့် ပြည်နယ်များမှ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်ဦးရေတူညီစွာ ရွေးကောက် တင်မြှောက်သည့် လွှတ်တော်ရှိ ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ခြင်းခံရသော လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ် စားလှယ်များ အစုအဖွဲ့၊
    (၂) မြို့နယ်ကိုအခြေခံ၍လည်းကောင်း၊ လူဦးရေကိုအခြေခံ၍လည်းကောင်း ရွေးကောက် တင်မြှောက်သည့်လွှတ်တော်ရှိ ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ခြင်းခံရသည့် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ် စားလှယ်များ အစုအဖွဲ့၊
    (၃) ဖော်ပြပါလွှတ်တော်နှစ်ရပ်အတွက် တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်က အမည် စာရင်းတင်သွင်းသည့် တပ်မတော်သားလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များအစုအဖွဲ့။
    (ဂ) ယင်းအစုအဖွဲ့တစ်ဖွဲ့စီက ဒုတိယသမ္မတတစ်ဦးစီကို လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ ထဲမှ ဖြစ်စေ၊ လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်မဟုတ်သူများထဲမှဖြစ်စေ ရွေးချယ်တင်မြှောက် ရမည်၊
    (ဃ) ဒုတိယသမ္မတများသည် နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတအတွက်သတ်မှတ်ထားသည့် အရည် အချင်းများနှင့် ပြည့်စုံခြင်း ရှိ၊ မရှိကို ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်နှင့် ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တွင် ပါဝင်သော လွှတ်တော်နှစ်ရပ်၏ အကြီးအမှူးများနှင့် ဒုတိယအကြီးအမှူးများ ပါဝင်သည့် အဖွဲ့က စိစစ်ရမည်၊
    ... (ပုဒ်မ-၆၀)

Vice-President

Afghanistan
  • English
    The individual who becomes a presidential candidate shall have the following qualifications:
    1. Shall be a citizen of Afghanistan, Muslim, born of Afghan parents and shall not be a citizen of another country;
    2. Shall not be less than forty years old the day of candidacy;
    3. Shall not have been convicted of crimes against humanity, a criminal act or deprivation of civil rights by court.
    No individual shall be elected for more than two terms as President. The provision of this article shall also apply to Vice-Presidents. (Art. 62)
  • Dari
    شخصی كه به ریاست جمهوری كاندید می شود، واجد شرایط ذیل می باشد:
    ١- تبعۀ افغانستان، مسلمان و متولد از والدین افغان بوده و تابعیت كشور دیگری را نداشته باشد؛
    ٢- در روز كاندید شدن سن وی از چهل سال كمتر نباشد؛
    ٣- از طرف محكمه به ارتكاب جرایم ضد بشری، جنایت و یا حرمان از حقوق مدنی محكوم نشده باشد؛
    هیچ شخص نمی تواند بیش از دو دوره به حیث رئیس جمهور انتخاب گردد. حكم مندرج این ماده در مورد معاونین رئیس جمهور نیز تطبیق می گردد. (مادۀ ۶۲)
  • Pashto
    څوك چې جمهوري رياست ته كانديدېږي، بايد دلاندنيو شرطونو لرونكى وي:
    ١- د افغانستان تبعه، مسلمان، له افغان مور او پلار څخه زېږيدلى وي او د بل هېواد تابعيت ونه لري؛
    ٢- د كانديديدو په ورځ يې عمر تر څلويښتو كلونو لږ نه وي؛
    ٣- د محكمې له خوا د بشري ضد جرمونو، او جنايت په ارتكاب او يا له مدني حقوقو څخه په محرومۍ محكوم شوى نه وي؛
    هېڅ شخص نشي كولاى له دوو دورو زيات د جمهور رئيس په حيث و ټاكل شي. په دې ماده كې راغلى حكم د جمهور رئيس د مرستيالانو په برخه كې هم تطبيقېږي. (۶۲ ماده)

Vice-President

Yemen
  • English
    Every Yemeni who meets the following specified conditions may become a candidate for the post of the President of the Republic:
    a. To be at least forty years old.
    b. To be a descendant of Yemeni parents.
    c. To be at Liberty to practice his political and civil rights.
    d. To be of good character, practices his Islamic duties and have no dishonorable criminal record and if so, he has been reprieved.
    e. Not to be married to a foreign spouse or to enter into such a marriage during his term of office. (Art. 107)
  • Arabic
    كل يمني تتوفر فيه الشروط المحدده فيما يأتي يمكن أن يُرشَح لمنصب رئيس الجمهورية -
    أ. أن لا يقل سنه عن أربعين سنة.
    ب. أن يكون من والدين يمنيين.
    ج. أن يكون متمتعاً بحقوقه السياسية والمدنية.
    د. أن يكون مستقيم الأخلاق والسلوك محافظاً على الشعائر الإسلامية وأن لا يكون قد صدر ضده حكم قضائي بات في قضية مخلة بالشرف أو الأمانه مالم يكن قد رد إليه اعتباره.
    ه. أن لا يكون متزوجاً من أجنبية وألا يتزوج أثناء مدة ولا يته من أجنبية. (المادّة 107)

Vice-President

Benin
  • English

    The Vice President of the Republic is not a member of the Government. He represents the President of the Republic, at [his] demand, inside or outside of the national territory.
    … (Art. 54-1)

  • French

    Le vice-président de la République n’est pas membre du Gouvernement. Il représente le Président de la République, à la demande de celui-ci, à l’intérieur ou à l’extérieur du territoire national.
    ... (Art. 54-1)

Vice-President

Equatorial Guinea
  • English
    The President of the Republic also exercises the following powers:
    …
    f) The President of the Republic freely appoints and dismisses the Vice President of the Republic. The Vice President of the Republic must belong to the party of the President of the Republic.
    … (Art. 41)
  • Spanish
    El Presidente de la República ejerce además los siguientes poderes:
    …
    f) El Presidente de la República nombra y separa libremente al Vice-Presidente de la Republica. El Vice-Presidente de la República debe pertenecer al partido del Presidente de la República.
    … (Art. 41)
  • French
    Le Président de la République exerce en outre les pouvoirs suivants :
    …
    f) Le Président de la République nomme et révoque librement le Vice-président de la République. Le Vice-président de la République doit appartenir au parti du Président de la République.
    … (Art. 41)

Vice-President

Namibia
  • English
    …
    (3) Without derogating from the generality of the functions and powers contemplated by Sub-Article (1) hereof, the President shall preside over meetings of the Cabinet and shall have the power, subject to this Constitution to:
    …
    (i) appoint the following persons:
    (aa) the Vice-President;
    …
    (3A) In the appointment of the Vice-President, the President shall have due regard for the need to obtain a balanced reflection of the national character of the people of Namibia.
    … (Art. 32)

Vice-President

Uganda
  • English
    1. There shall be a Vice President of Uganda.
    2. The President shall, with the approval of Parliament by a simple majority, appoint a Vice President.
    …
    4. The qualifications prescribed for the office of President by article 102 of this Constitution shall apply to the office of Vice President.
    … (Art. 108)