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Head of State
- EnglishAfter the office of Leadership, the President is the highest official in the country. He is responsible for implementing the Constitution and acting as the head of the executive, except in matters directly concerned with (the office of) the Leadership. (Art. 113)
- Persianپس از مقام رهبری رئیسجمهور عالیترین مقام رسمی کشور است و مسئولیت اجرای قانون اساسی و ریاست قوه مجریه را جز در اموری که مستقیماً به رهبری مربوط میشود، برعهده دارد. (اصل 113)
Head of State
- 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)
Head of State
- EnglishAny person who is at least thirty-five years of age and fulfils the requirements necessary to vote in elections to Althingi, with the exception of the residency requirement, is eligible to be elected President. (Art. 4)
- IcelandicKjörgengur til forseta er hver 35 ára gamall maður, sem fullnægir skilyrðum kosningarréttar til Alþingis, að fráskildu búsetuskilyrðinu. (4. gr.)
Head of State
- English1. The executive authority of Jamaica is vested in Her Majesty.
2. Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the executive authority of Jamaica may be exercised on behalf of Her Majesty by the Governor-General either directly or through officers subordinate to him.
… (Sec. 68)
Head of State
- English
1. His Majesty the Druk Gyalpo is the Head of State and the symbol of unity of the Kingdom and of the people of Bhutan.
2. The Chhoe-sid-nyi of Bhutan shall be unified in the person of the Druk Gyalpo who, as a Buddhist, shall be the upholder of the Chhoe-sid.
3.The title to the Golden Throne of Bhutan shall vest in the legitimate descendants of Druk Gyalpo Ugyen Wangchuck as enshrined in the inviolable and historic Gyenja of the Thirteenth Day, Eleventh Month of the Earth Monkey Year, corresponding to the Seventeenth Day of December, Nineteen Hundred and Seven and shall:
(a) Pass only to children born of lawful marriage;
(b) Pass by hereditary succession to the direct lineal descendants on the abdication or demise of the Druk Gyalpo, in order of seniority, with a prince taking precedence over a princess, subject to the requirement that, in the event of shortcomings in the elder prince, it shall be the sacred duty of the Druk Gyalpo to select and proclaim the most capable prince or princess as heir to the Throne;
(c) Pass to the child of the Queen who is pregnant at the time of the demise of the Druk Gyalpo if no heir exists under section 3(b);
(d) Pass to the nearest collateral line of the descendants of the Druk Gyalpo in accordance with the principle of lineal descent, with preference being given for elder over the younger, if the Druk Gyalpo has no direct lineal descendant;
(e) Not pass to children incapable of exercising the Royal Prerogatives by reason of physical or mental infirmity.
(f) Not pass to a person entitled to succeed to the Throne who enters into a marriage with a person other than a natural born citizen of Bhutan.
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6. Upon reaching the age of sixty-five years, the Druk Gyalpo shall step down and hand over the Throne to the Crown Prince or Crown Princess, provided the Royal Heir has come of age.
… (Art. 2) - Dzongkha
༡) འབྲུག་མངའ་བདག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱི་དབུ་ཁྲིད་དང་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་དང་འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ སེར་གཅིག་མཐུན་གྱི་ བརྡ་མཚོན་ཨིན།
༢) འབྲུག་གི་ཆོས་སྲིད་གཉིས་ཀྱི་གནས་ལུགས་འདི་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གི་སྐུ་ངོ་བོར་འདུས་པ་ལས་ སངས་རྒྱས་པའི་ཆོས་འཛིན་འབྲུག་གི་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་ ཆོས་སྲིད་གཉིས་ཆ་རའི་བསྟན་པ་འཛིན་མི་ཨིན།
༣) འབྲུག་གི་གསེར་ཁྲིའི་བདག་དབང་འདི་ འགྱུར་ལྡོག་མེད་པའི་རྒྱལ་རབས་ཅན་གྱི་གན་རྒྱ་གནམ་ ལོ་ས་སྤྲེལ་ཟླ་བཅུ་གཅིག་པའི་ཚེས་བཅུ་གསུམ་དང་ སྤྱི་ལོ་གཅིག་སྟོང་དགུ་བརྒྱ་བདུན་ ཟླ་བཅུ་ གཉིས་པའི་ཚེས་བཅུ་བདུན་ཅན་མར་བཀོད་དོན་ལྟར་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་གོང་ས་ཨོ་རྒྱན་དབང་ཕྱུག་ གི་ཁྲིམས་མཐུན་གདུང་བརྒྱུད་གཙང་མ་ཚུ་ལུ་ཡོད་མི་འདི་ཡང་།
ཀ༽ ཁྲིམས་མཐུན་ཁབ་ཏུ་བཞེས་མི་ལས་འཁྲུངས་པའི་སྲས་སྲོས་ཁོ་ན་ལུ་ བཅོལ་གཏད་ མཛད་ནི་དང་།
ཁ༽ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་ རྒྱལ་ཁྲི་སྤང་བ་ ཡང་ན་ཞིང་ལུ་ཕེབས་ད་ དངོས་བརྒྱུད་ གདུང་འཛིན་ཚུ་ལུ་རྒྱལ་བརྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ འཛིན་རིམ་བཅོལ་གཏད་འདི་ རྒན་རིམ་དང་ བསྟུན་ཏེ་ སྲས་མོ་ཚུ་ལས་སྲས་ཅིག་གིས་འདེམས་རིམ་ཧེ་མ་བཟུང་ནི་ཨིན་རུང་ གལ་སྲིད་སྲས་སྦོམ་ཤོས་འདི་ལུ་སྐྱོན་ཆ་རེ་འབྱུང་ཚེ་ དགོས་མཁོ་དང་བསྟུན་ ལྕོགས་གྲུབ་ཆེ་ཤོས་ཀྱི་སྲས་ ཡང་ན་སྲས་མོ་འདི་ རྒྱལ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་མིར་གདམ་ཁ་ གནང་ཞིནམ་ལས་ དེ་ལུགས་ཀྱི་བཀའ་ཁྱབ་གནང་ནི་འདི་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གི་ ཕྱག་འགན་དམ་ཟབ་ཅན་ཅིག་ཨིན།
ག༽ དོན་ཚན་༣ པ་ཁ༽ པའི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་གྱི་རྒྱལ་བརྒྱུད་འཛིན་མི་མེད་ཚེ་ འབྲུག་ རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་ཞིང་ལུ་ ཕེབས་པའི་དུས་ཚོད་ལུ་ བཙུན་མོའི་ལྷུམས་སུ་ཡོད་མི་སྲས་ སྲོས་དེ་ལུ་རྒྱལ་བརྒྱུད་བཅོལ་གཏད་མཛད་ནི་ཨིན།
ང་༽ གལ་སྲིད་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་ལུ་ཐད་ཀར་གྱི་དངོས་བརྒྱུད་གདུང་འཛིན་མེད་ཚེ་ དངོས་བརྒྱུད་ གདུང་འཛིན་གྱི་གཞི་རྩ་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གི་གདུང་ བརྒྱུད་ཉེ་ཤོས་ཀྱི་གཞོན་ཤོས་ལས་ རྒན་ཤོས་གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་སྟེ་བཅོལ་གཏད་མཛད་ནི་ཨིན།
ཅ༽ སྐུ་གཟུགས་ ཡང་ན་ དྲན་ཤེས་བརྟན་པོ་མེདཔ་ལས་ རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཁྱད་དབང་སྤྱོད་ ནིའི་ལྕོགས་གྲུབ་མེད་པའི་ སྲས་སྲོས་ལུ་བཅོལ་གཏད་མཛད་ནི་མེད།
ཆ༽ རྒྱལ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་ནིའི་ཐོབ་རིམ་ཡོད་མི་ཅིག་གིས་ རང་བཞིན་སྐྱེས་ལུང་ལས་བརྟེན་པའི་ འབྲུག་གི་མི་སེར་ མ་ཡིན་མི་ཅིག་དང་གཉེན་སྦྱོར་མཛད་ཚེ་ དེ་ལུ་བཅོལ་གཏད་ མཛད་ནི་མེད།
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༦) འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་དགུང་ལོ་དྲུག་ཅུ་རེ་ལྔ་བཞེསཔ་ད་ བརྒྱུད་འཛིན་གྱི་སྲས་ ཡང་ན་ སྲས་མོ་འདི་ ལོ་ཚད་ལོན་པ་ཡིན་ཚེ་ ཁྲི་ལས་བབ་སྟེ་རྒྱལ་བརྒྱུད་འཛིན་མི་འདི་ལུ་རྒྱལ་ཁྲི་རྩིས་སྤྲོད་མཛད་ནི་ཨིན།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༢༽
Head of State
- English
The First Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, who represents the State. (Art. 100)
- Korean
조선민주주의인민공화국 국무위원회 위원장은 국가를 대표하는 조선민주주의인민공화국의 최고령도자이다. (제100조)
Head of State
- EnglishThe King Head of State, His Supreme Representative, Symbol of the unity of the Nation, Guarantor of the permanence and of the continuity of the State and Supreme Arbiter between the institutions, sees to respect for the Constitution, to the good functioning of the constitutional institutions, to the protection of democratic choice and of the rights and freedoms of the citizens, of the collectivities, and to respect for the international commitments of the Kingdom.
… (Art. 42) - Arabicالملك رئيس الدولة، وممثلها الأسمى، ورمز وحدة الأمة، وضامن دوام الدولة واستمرارها، والحكم الأسمى بين مؤسساتها، يسهر على احترام الدستور، وحسن سير المؤسسات الدستورية، وعلى صيانة الاختيار الديمقراطي، وحقوق وحريات المواطنين والمواطنات والجماعات، وعلى احترام التعهدات الدولية للمملكة.
… (الفصل 42)
Head of State
- English
(1) The Grand Duke is the Head of the State.
He represents the State. He is the symbol of the national unity and independence.
...
(2) The Grand Duke has no other powers than those conferred upon him by the Constitution and the laws.
He exercises jointly with the Government the executive power.
... (Art. 44) - French
(1) Le Grand-Duc est le Chef de l’État.
Il représente l’État. Il est le symbole de l’unité et de l’indépendance nationales.
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(2) Le Grand-Duc n’a d’autres attributions que celles que lui accordent la Constitution et les lois.
Il exerce conjointement avec le Gouvernement le pouvoir exécutif.
... (Art. 44)
Head of State
- English(1) Any reference in this Constitution to the functions of the Governor-General shall be construed as a reference to his or her powers and duties in the exercise of the executive authority of Saint Christopher and Nevis and to any other powers and duties conferred or imposed on him or her as Governor-General by or under this Constitution or any other law.
(2) Where by this Constitution the Governor-General is required to perform any function in his or her own deliberate judgment or in accordance with the advice or recommendation of, or after consultation with, any person or authority, the question whether the Governor-General has so exercised that function shall not be enquired into in any court of law.
(3) Where by this Constitution the Governor-General is required to perform any function after consultation with any person or authority he or she shall not be obliged to exercise that function in accordance with the recommendation of that person or authority. (Sec. 116)
Head of State
- EnglishA person elected as President shall have the following qualifications:
(a) be a Maldivian citizen born to parents who are Maldivian citizens, and who is not also a citizen of a foreign country;
(b) be a Muslim and a follower of a Sunni school of Islam;
(c) be at least thirty-five years of age;
(d) be of sound mind;
(e) not have an undischarged decreed debt;
(f) not have been convicted of a criminal offence and sentenced to a term of more than twelve months, unless a period of three years has elapsed since his release, or pardon for the offence for which he was sentenced; and
(g) despite the provisions of article (f), not have been convicted of an offence for which a hadd is prescribed in Islam or of fraud, deception or criminal breach of trust. (Art. 109) - Dhivehiރައީސުލްޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާކަމުގެ މަޤާމަށް އިންތިހާބްކުރެވޭ މީހެއްގައި އަންނަނިވި ޝަރުތުތައް ފުރިހަމަވާންވާނެއެވެ.
(ހ) ދިވެހި މަންމައަކާއި ދިވެހި ބައްޕައަކަށް އުފަން ދިވެހި ރައްޔިތަކު ކަމުގައިވުން އަދި ބޭރުޤައުމެއްގެ ރައްޔިތަކު ކަމުގައި ނުވުން.
(ށ) މުސްލިމަކު ކަމުގައިވުމާއި، ސުންނަތް ޖަމާއަތުގެ މީހަކު ކަމުގައިވުން.
(ނ) އުމުރުން ތިރީސްފަސް އަހަރުވެފައިވާ މީހަކުކަމުގައިވުން.
(ރ) ބުއްދި ހަމައަށްހުރި މީހަކު ކަމުގައިވުން.
(ބ) އަދާކުރާންޖެހޭ ސާބިތު ދަރަންޏެއް އޮތް މީހަކު ނަމަ، އެ ދަރަނި ހަލާސްނުކޮށް ހުރި މީހަކު ކަމުގައި ނުވުން.
(ޅ) ޖިނާއީ ކުށެއް ކުރިކަން ސާބިތުވެގެން ބާރަ މަސްދުވަހަށްވުރެ ދިގުމުއްދަތެއްގެ ހުކުމެއް ކުރެވިފައިވާ މީހަކު ނަމަ، އެ ހުކުމް ތަންފީޛުކޮށް ނިމުނުތާ ނުވަތަ އެ ހުކުމް ކަނޑައެޅުނު އަދަބު މަޢާފްކުރެވުނުތާ ތިންއަހަރު ވެފައިވާ މީހަކު ކަމިގައިވުން.
(ކ) މި މާއްދާގެ (ޅ) ގައި އެހެން އޮތްމަކުގައިވީ ނަމަވެސް އެ މީހަކީ އިސްލާމްދީނުގައި ހައްދު ކަނޑައެޅިފައިވާ ކުށެއް ނުވަތަ މަކަރާ ހީލަތް، ޓެކުން، ހިޔާނާތުގެ ކުށެއް ކުރިކަން ޝަރީއަތަށް ސާބިތުވެފައިވާ މީހެއްކަމުގައި ނުވުން.(ޤާނޫނުއަސާސީގެ 109 ވަނަ މާއްދާ)