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Government
- English
1. The Druk Gyalpo shall confer Dakyen to the leader or nominee of the party, which wins the majority of seats in the National Assembly, as the Prime Minister.
2. No person shall hold office as Prime Minister for more than two terms.
3. The Druk Gyalpo shall appoint Ministers from among the members of the National Assembly, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, or shall remove a Minister on the advice of the Prime Minister.
4. A candidate for the post of Prime Minister or Minister shall be an elected member of the National Assembly and a natural born citizen of Bhutan.
... (Art. 17) - Dzongkha
༡) འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་འདེམས་ཁྲི་མང་ཤོས་ཐོབ་མི་ཚོགས་པའི་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་ ཡང་ན་ དེའི་གདམ་ངོ་འདི་ལུ་བློན་ཆེན་སྦེ་བདག་རྐྱེན་གནང་ནི།
༢) མི་ཅིག་གིས་ བློན་ཆེན་གྱི་གོ་གནས་འདི་ གནས་ཡུན་ཐེངས་གཉིས་ལས་ལྷག་སྟེ་བཟུང་ནི་མེད།
༣) འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་འཐུས་མིའི་གྲལ་ལས་ བློན་ཆེན་གྱི་གྲོས་འདེབས་ཐོག་ བློན་པོ་ཚུ་བསྐོ་བཞག་གནང་ནི་ ཡང་ན་ བློན་ཆེན་གྱི་གྲོས་འབུལ་ཐོག་ བློན་པོའི་གོ་གནས་ལས་བཏོན་གཏང་ནི།
༤) བློན་ཆེན་དང་བློན་པོའི་གོ་གནས་ཀྱི་དོན་ལུ་འདེམས་ངོ་དེ་ བཙག་འཐུ་གྲུབ་པའི་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ ཚོགས་འདུའི་ འཐུས་མི་ཅིག་ཨིན་དགོ་པའི་ཁར་ རང་བཞིན་གྱི་སྐྱེས་ལུང་ལས་བརྟེན་པའི་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཨིན་མི་ཅིག་དགོ།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༧༽
Government
- EnglishIn consultation with the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister chooses the members of his cabinet, and seeks the confidence of the House of Representative on the basis of a program he submits to the House. (Art. 132)
- Arabicيختار رئيس الوزراء أعضاء وزارته بالتشـاور مع رئيس الجمهورية ويطلب الثقة بالحكومة على ضوء برنامج يتقدم به إلى مجلس النواب. (المادّة 132)
Government
- English…
(4) In the composition of the Government, women shall be fairly represented.
… (Sec. 214)
Government
- English
(1) Whenever a President is elected, he shall as soon as practicable appoint five or six members of Parliament to be Ministers of the Cabinet.
… (Art. 19)
Government
- English(1) The President shall appoint an elected member of the National Assembly to be Prime Minister of Guyana:
Provided that a person who is not eligible to be elected as President shall not be eligible for appointment as Prime Minister.
(2) The Prime Minister shall be the principal assistant of the President in the discharge of his or her executive functions and leader of Government business in the National Assembly. (Art. 101)
Government
- EnglishThe King appoints and dismisses his ministers.
… (Art. 96) - DutchDe Koning benoemt en ontslaat zijn ministers.
… (Art. 96) - FrenchLe Roi nomme et révoque ses ministers.
… (Art. 96) - GermanDer König ernennt und entlässt seine Minister.
… (Art. 96)
Government
- English• The National Transitional Council shall appoint an Executive Office or an Interim Government consisting of a Chairman and a sufficient number of members in order to manage the different sectors of the State. … (Art. 24)
- Arabicيعيّن المجلس الوطني الانتقالي المؤقت مكتبا تنفيذياً - أو حكومة مؤقّتة يتكوّن من رئيس وعدد كاف من الأعضاء، لتسيير القطاعات المختلفة في البلاد. ... (المادّة 24)
Government
- EnglishThe faculties and obligations of the President, are the following:
…
II. To appoint and remove freely the Secretaries of State,
… (Art. 89) - SpanishLas facultades y obligaciones del Presidente, son las siguientes:
…
II. Nombrar y remover libremente a los Secretarios de Estado,
… (Art. 89)
Government
- EnglishFirst: The President of the Republic shall charge the nominee of the largest Council of Representatives bloc with the formation of the Council of Ministers within fifteen days from the date of the election of the President of the Republic.
Second: The Prime Minister-designate shall undertake the naming of the members of his Council of Ministers within a period not to exceed thirty days from the date of his designation.
Third: If the Prime Minister-designate fails to form the Council of Ministers during the period specified in clause “Second,” the President of the Republic shall charge a new nominee for the post of Prime Minister within fifteen days.
Fourth: The Prime Minister-designate shall present the names of his members of the Council of Ministers and the ministerial program to the Council of Representatives. He is deemed to have gained its confidence upon the approval, by an absolute majority of the Council of Representatives, of the individual Ministers and the ministerial program.
Fifth: The President of the Republic shall charge another nominee to form the Council of Ministers within fifteen days in case the Council of Ministers did not win the vote of confidence. (Art. 76) - Arabicاولاً :ـ يكلف رئيس الجمهورية، مرشح الكتلة النيابية الاكثر عدداً، بتشكيل مجلس الوزراء، خلال خمسة عشرَ يوماً من تاريخ انتخاب رئيس الجمهورية.
ثانياً :ـ يتولى رئيس مجلس الوزراء المكلف، تسمية اعضاء وزارته، خلال مدةٍ اقصاها ثلاثون يوماً من تاريخ التكليف.
ثالثاً :ـ يُكلف رئيس الجمهورية، مرشحاً جديداً لرئاسة مجلس الوزراء، خلال خمسة عشر يوماً، عند اخفاق رئيس مجلس الوزراء المكلف في تشكيل الوزارة، خلال المدة المنصوص عليها في البند "ثانياً" من هذه المادة.
رابعاً :ـ يعرض رئيس مجلس الوزراء المكلف، اسماء اعضاء وزارته، والمنهاج الوزاري، على مجلس النواب، ويعد حائزاً ثقتها، عند الموافقة على الوزراء منفردين، والمنهاج الوزاري، بالأغلبية المطلقة.
خامساً :ـ يتولى رئيس الجمهورية تكليف مرشحٍ آخر بتشكيل الوزارة، خلال خمسة عشر يوماً، في حالة عدم نيل الوزارة الثقة. (المادة 76)
Government
- EnglishThe King shall appoint and dismiss the Prime Minister and the other Ministers.
… (Sec. 14) - DanishKongen udnævner og afskediger statsministeren og de øvrige ministre.
… (§ 14)