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Government
- EnglishFor the exercise of the political and administrative function, the President of the Republic presides over the Council of Ministers, constituted by the Vice President of the Republic, the Prime Minister and other members of the Government. (Art. 46)
- SpanishPara el ejercicio de la función política y administrativa, el Presidente de la República preside el Consejo de Ministros, constituido por el Vice-Presidente de la República, el Primer Ministro y demás miembros del Gobierno. (Art. 46)
- FrenchDans l'exercice de la fonction politique et administrative, le Président de la République préside le Conseil des ministres, composé du Vice-président de la République, du Premier ministre et des autres membres du gouvernement. (Art. 46)
Government
- EnglishThe King appoints the Prime Minister, dismisses him and accepts his resignation, and appoints the Ministers, dismisses them and accepts their resignation upon the recommendation of the Prime Minister. (Art. 35)
- Arabicالملك يعين رئيس الوزراء ويقيله ويقبل إستقالته ويعين الوزراء ويقيلهم ويقبل إستقالتهم بناء على تنسيب رئيس الوزراء. (المادّة 35)
Government
- English(1) There shall be a Cabinet which shall consist of the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and such number of Ministers as the King, after consultations with the Prime Minister, may deem necessary for the purpose of administering and executing the functions of the Government.
(2) The Prime Minister shall be the chairman of the Cabinet and leader of Government business in Parliament. (Sec. 66)
Government
- EnglishThe Federal Government shall consist of the Federal Chancellor and the Federal Ministers. (Art. 62)
- GermanDie Bundesregierung besteht aus dem Bundeskanzler und aus den Bundesministern. (Art. 62)
Government
- English
The following are the attributions and duties of the President of the Republic, in addition to those stipulated by law:
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9. To appoint and remove from office Ministers of State
… (Art. 147) - Spanish
Son atribuciones y deberes de la Presidenta o Presidente de la República, además de los que determine la ley:
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9. Nombrar y remover a las ministras y ministros de Estado
… (Art. 147)
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
- EnglishThe Amir shall appoint the Prime Minister after the traditional consultations and shall relieve him from his post. He shall also appoint the Ministers and relieve them from their posts on the recommendation of the Prime Minister.
Ministers shall be appointed from among members of the National Assembly or from other quarters.
The entire number of Ministers shall not exceed one third the number of the members of the National Assembly. (Art. 56) - Arabicيعين الأمير رئيس مجلس الوزراء، بعد المشاورات التقليدية، ويعفيه من منصبه، كما يعين الوزراء ويعفيهم من مناصبهم بناء على ترشيح رئيس مجلس الوزراء.
ويكون تعيين الوزراء من أعضاء مجلس الأمة ومن غيرهم.
ولا يزيد عدد الوزراء جميعا على ثلث عدد أعضاء مجلس الأمة. (المادّة 56)
Government
- EnglishThe Prime Minister proposes to the President of the Republic the structure and the composition of the Government.
The President of the Republic appoints the Ministers and terminates their function, after consultation with the Prime Minister.
… (Art. 53) - FrenchLe premier ministre propose au président de la République la structure et la composition du Gouvernement.
Le président de la République nomme les ministres et met fin à leur fonction, après consultation du premier ministre.
… (Art. 53)
Government
- English1 The Government shall consist of not less than seven and not more than fifteen members who shall be appointed by the President in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.
2 The executive power of the State shall, subject to the provisions of this Constitution, be exercised by or on the authority of the Government.
... (Art. 28) - Irish Gaelic1 Mórsheisear ar a laghad, agus cúig dhuine dhéag ar a mhéid, líon comhaltaí an Rialtais, agus is é an tUachtarán a cheapfas na comhaltaí sin de réir forálacha an Bhunreachta seo.
2 Faoi chuimsiú forálacha an Bhunreachta seo, is é an Rialtas a oibreos, nó is le húdarás an Rialtais a oibreofar, cumhacht chomhallach an Stáit.
... (Airteagal 28)
Government
- EnglishThe President of the Republic chooses a Prime Minister from among the members of the Party having the absolute majority in the Parliament. The majority is established on the basis of the electoral results of those elected in each of the two Chambers. In default of this majority, the President of the Republic chooses the Prime Minister in consultation with the President of the Senate and that of the Chamber of Deputies. (Art. 137)
- FrenchLe Président de la République choisit un Premier Ministre parmi les membres du parti ayant la majorité au Parlement. La majorité est établie sur la base des résultats électoraux des élus dans chacune des deux Chambres. A défaut de cette majorité, le Président de la République choisit son Premier Ministre en consultation avec le Président du Sénat et celui de la Chambre des députés. (Art. 137)