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Head of State
- English(a) The President shall be elected by the Presidential Electoral College.
(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.
(e) The Presidential Electoral College comprising all the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw representatives shall elect by vote one of the three Vice-Presidents who are Presidential candidates, as the President.
(f) Necessary law shall be enacted for the election of President and Vice Presidents. (Sec. 60) - Burmese(က) နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတကို သမ္မတရွေးချယ်တင်မြှောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ဖြင့် ရွေးချယ် တင်မြှောက်ရမည်၊
(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 စာရင်းတင်သွင့်သည့် 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၊
(င) ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အားလုံးပါဝင်သော သမ္မတရွေးချယ် တင်မြှောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့က နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတလောင်းများဖြစ်သည့် ဒုတိယသမ္မတသုံးဦး အနက် မိမိတို့ကြိုက်နှစ်သက်သည့် ဒုတိယသမ္မတတစ်ဦးကို နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတအဖြစ် ဆန္ဒမဲပေး ရွေးချယ်တင်မြှောက်ရမည်၊
(စ) ထိုသို့ နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတနှင့် ဒုတိယသမ္မတများရွေးချယ်တင်မြှောက်နိုင်ရန် လိုအပ် သည့် ဥပဒေကို ပြဌာန်းပေးရမည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၆၀)
Head of State
- English(1) The guardian of the King during his minority shall be the person appointed in the will of the deceased King, provided that he or she is of age and Spaniard by birth. If a guardian has not been appointed, the father or the mother shall be guardian, as long as they remain widowed. In default thereof, the guardian shall be appointed by the Cortes Generales, but the offices of Regent and Guardian may not be held by the same person, except by the father, mother or direct ancestors of the King.
… (Sec. 60) - Spanish1. Será tutor del Rey menor la persona que en su testamento hubiese nombrado el Rey difunto, siempre que sea mayor de edad y español de nacimiento; si no lo hubiese nombrado, será tutor el padre o la madre, mientras permanezcan viudos. En su defecto, lo nombrarán las Cortes Generales, pero no podrán acumularse los cargos de Regente y de tutor sino en el padre, madre o ascendientes directos del Rey.
… (Art. 60)
Head of State
- EnglishOnly a voting citizen who is Cabo Verdean by origin may be elected President of the Republic, and one who does not possess any other nationality, is more than thirty-five years old on the date of application and who, in the three years immediately preceding that date, has had permanent residence within the national territory. (Art. 110)
- PortugueseSó pode ser eleito Presidente da República o cidadão eleitor caboverdiano de origem, que não possua outra nacionalidade, maior de trinta e cinco anos à data da candidatura e que, nos três anos imediatamente anteriores àquela data tenha tido residência permanente no território nacional. (Art. 110)
Head of State
- English
The election of the President and Vice President of the Republic is realized through universal, equal, direct, free and secret suffrage. Those obtaining the relative majority of votes will be elected.
... (Art. 146) - Spanish
La elección del Presidente y Vicepresidente de la República se realiza mediante el sufragio universal, igual, directo, libre y secreto. Serán elegidos quienes obtengan la mayoría relativa de votos.
... (Art. 146)
Head of State
- EnglishThe succession to the Throne, opened by death or abdication, takes place by the direct and legitimate issue of the reigning prince, by order of primogeniture with priority given to males within the same degree of kinship.
In the absence of direct legitimate issue, the succession passes to the brothers and sisters of the reigning prince and their direct legitimate descendants, by order of primogeniture with priority given to males within the same degree of kinship.
If the heir, who would have acceded by virtue of the preceding paragraphs, is deceased or renounced the Throne before the succession became open, the succession passes to His own direct legitimate descendants, by order of primogeniture with priority given to males within the same degree of kinship.
If the application of the preceding paragraphs does not fill the vacancy of the Throne, the succession passes to a collateral heir appointed by the Crown Council upon same advice of the Regency Council. The powers of the prince are temporarily held by the Regency Council.
The Throne can only pass to a person holding Monegasque citizenship on the day the succession opens.
The procedures of application of this article are set, as needed, by the House Laws of the Sovereign Family, promulgated by Sovereign ordinance. (Art. 10) - FrenchLa succession au Trône, ouverte par suite de décès ou d'abdication, s'opère dans la descendance directe et légitime du Prince régnant, par ordre de primogéniture avec priorité masculine au même degré de parenté.
A défaut de descendance directe et légitime, la succession s'opère au profit des frères et soeurs du Prince régnant et de leurs descendants directs et légitimes, par ordre de primogéniture avec priorité masculine au même degré de parenté.
Si l'héritier qui aurait été appelé à monter sur le Trône en vertu des alinéas précédents est décédé ou a renoncé avant l'ouverture de la succession, la dévolution s'opère au profit de ses propres descendants directs et légitimes, selon l'ordre de primogéniture avec priorité masculine au même degré de parenté.
Si l'application des paragraphes ci-dessus ne permet pas de pourvoir à la vacance du Trône, la succession s'opère au profit d'un collatéral désigné par le Conseil de la Couronne sur avis conforme du Conseil de régence. Les pouvoirs princiers sont provisoirement exercés par le Conseil de régence.
La succession au Trône ne peut s'opérer qu'au profit d'une personne ayant la nationalité monégasque au jour de l'ouverture de la succession.
Les modalités d'application du présent article sont fixées, en tant que de besoin, par les statuts de la Famille Souveraine, pris par Ordonnance Souveraine. (Art. 10)
Head of State
- EnglishThe President of the Republic is the Head of State, Head of the Government and of the Administration. In this capacity [titre], he determines and conducts the policy of the Nation, [and] he exercises the regulatory power. (Art. 84)
- Arabicرئيس الجمهورية هو رئيس الدولة ورئيس الحكومة والإدارة. وبصفته هذه، يحدد وينفذ سياسات الأمة ويمارس السلطة التنظيمية. (المادة 84)
- FrenchLe Président de la République est le Chef de l'Etat, Chef du Gouvernement et de l'Administration. A ce titre, il détermine et conduit la politique de la Nation, il exerce le pouvoir réglementaire. (Art. 84)
Head of State
- English(1) There shall be a President of the Republic of Sri Lanka, who is the Head of the State, the Head of the Executive and of the Government and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.
(2) The President of the Republic shall be elected by the People and shall hold office for a term of five years. (Art. 30) - Sinhala(1) ශ්රී ලංකා ජනරජයේ ජනාධිපතිවරයෙක් වන්නේ ය, ජනාධිපතිවරයා රජයේ ප්රධානයා ද විධායකයේ ප්රධානයා ද ආණ්ඩුවේ ප්රධානයා ද සන්නද්ධ සේවාවන්හි සේනාධිනායකවරයා ද වන්නේ ය.
(2) ජනරජයේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා ජනතාව විසින් තෝරා පත් කර ගනු ලැබිය යුතු අතර පස් අවුරුදු කාලයක් ධූරය දරන්නේ ය. (30 වැනි වගන්තිය)
Head of State
- EnglishThe President of the Republic shall be an Ecuadorian national by birth, at least thirty-five (35) years of age when registering his/her candidacy, in possession of his/her political rights, and not subject to any of the disqualifications or prohibitions provided for by the Constitution. (Art. 142)4
- SpanishLa Presidenta o Presidente de la República debe ser ecuatoriano por nacimiento, haber cumplido treinta y cinco años de edad a la fecha de inscripción de su candidatura, estar en goce de los derechos políticos y no encontrarse incurso en ninguna de las inhabilidades o prohibiciones establecidas en la Constitución. (Art. 142)
Head of State
- English
On the death of the King, the title to the Throne shall pass by hereditary succession to the King’s legitimate descendants in order of seniority, the same rule governing succession by the issue of descendants who predecease the King. If the King has no descendants, the title to the Throne shall pass in the same way to the legitimate descendants of the King’s parent and then of his grandparent who are in the line of succession but are not further removed from the deceased King than the third degree of consanguinity. (Art. 25)
- Dutch
Het koningschap gaat bij overlijden van de Koning krachtens erfopvolging over op zijn wettige nakomelingen, waarbij het oudste kind voorrang heeft, met plaatsvervulling volgens dezelfde regel. Bij gebreke van eigen nakomelingen gaat het koningschap op gelijke wijze over op de wettige nakomelingen eerst van zijn ouder, dan van zijn grootouder, in de lijn van erfopvolging, voor zover de overleden Koning niet verder bestaand dan in de derde graad van bloedverwantschap. (Art. 25)
Head of State
- EnglishThe President of the Palestinian National Authority shall be elected in a general and direct election by the Palestinian people, in accordance with the Palestinian Election Law. (Art. 34)
- Arabicينتخب رئيس السّلطة الفلسطينية انتخابا عامّا و مباشرا من الشّعب الفلسطيني و فقا لأحكام قانون الانتخابات الفلسطيني. (المادّة 34)