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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
- EnglishThe Emir shall appoint the Prime Minister, accept his resignation and remove him from office by an Emiri order; … (Art. 72)
- Arabicيعيّن الأمير رئيس مجلس الوزراء ويقبل استقالته ويعفيه من منصبه بأمر أميري، ... (المادّة 72)
Government
- English1. There shall be a Cabinet for Mauritius consisting of the Prime Minister and the other Ministers.
2. The functions of the Cabinet shall be to advise the President in the Government of Mauritius and the Cabinet shall be collectively responsible to the Assembly for any advice given to the President by or under the general authority of the Cabinet and for all things done by or under the authority of any Minister in execution of his office.
… (Sec. 61)
Government
- English1. The President of the Republic appoints the Prime Minister after consulting the parties with seats in Assembly of the Republic and in the light of the electoral results.
2. The President of the Republic appoints the remaining members of the Government upon a proposal from the Prime Minister. (Art. 187) - Portuguese1. O Primeiro-Ministro é nomeado pelo Presidente da República, ouvidos os partidos representados na Assembleia da República e tendo em conta os resultados eleitorais.
2. Os restantes membros do Governo são nomeados pelo Presidente da República, sob proposta do Primeiro-Ministro. (Art. 187)
Government
- English
The Ministers meeting, form the Council of Ministers. The law determines its organization and functions.
The Council of Ministers has its President. It corresponds to the President of the Republic to preside over the Council of Ministers when he convokes it or when he attends its sessions. (Art. 121) - Spanish
Los ministros, reunidos, forman el Consejo de Ministros. La ley determina su organización y funciones.
El Consejo de Ministros tiene su Presidente. Corresponde al Presidente de la República presidir el Consejo de Ministros cuando lo convoca o cuando asiste a sus sesiones. (Art. 121)
Government
- EnglishPowers of the President:
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4) Shall appoint and dismiss the Prime Minister and other Government members, submit for confirming his decrees on the appointment and dismissal of the Prime Minister and other Government members to the joint sessions of the Majlisi Milli and Majlisi Namoyandagon;
… (Art. 69) - RussianПолномочия Президента:
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4) Назначает и освобождает Премьер‐министра и других членов Правительства; представляет указы о назначении и освобождении Премьер‐министра и других членов Правительства на утверждение совместных заседаний Маджлиси милли Маджлиси намояндагон;
… (Статья 69) - TajikСалоҳияти Президент:
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4) Сарвазир ва дигар аъзои ҳукуматро таъин ва озод мекунад; фармон дар бораи таъин ва озод кардани Сарвазир ва дигар аъзои Ҳукуматро ба тасдиқи ҷаласаи якҷояи Маҷлиси миллӣ ва Маҷлиси намояндагон пешниҳод менамояд;
… (Моддаи 69)
Government
- English…
(3) The composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity, and also to command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few States or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in that Government or in any of its agencies.
… (Sec. 14)
Government
- EnglishAfter consultation with the leaders of deputy groups the President of the Republic proposes to the National Assembly a candidate for President of the Government.
The President of the Government is elected by the National Assembly by a majority vote of all deputies unless otherwise provided by this Constitution.
… (Art. 111) - SlovenePredsednik republike po posvetovanju z vodji poslanskih skupin predloži državnemu zboru kandidata za predsednika vlade.
Predsednika vlade voli državni zbor z večino glasov vseh poslancev, če ni s to ustavo drugače določeno.
… (111. Člen)
Government
- EnglishThe same qualifications shall be required for a Minister as for a Senator. (Art. 176)
- SpanishPara ser Ministro se necesitan las mismas calidades que para Senador. (Art. 176)
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)