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Government
- English1. The Government shall consist of the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers, and ministers.
… (Art. 147) - Armenian1. Կառավարությունը կազմված է վարչապետից, փոխվարչապետներից և նախարարներից:
… (Հոդված 147)
Government
- EnglishThe Council of Ministers shall consist of the Prime Minister, as Head, and of a number of ministers pursuant to the need and public interest. (Art. 41)
- Arabicيؤلف مجلس الوزراء من رئيس الوزراء رئيساً ومن عدد من الوزراء حسب الحاجة والمصلحة العامة. (المادّة 41)
Government
- English(1) There shall be such offices of Minister of the Government (not exceeding six or such other number as Parliament may from time to time provide) as may be established by Parliament or, subject to the provisions of any Act of Parliament, by the President.
(2) There shall be such offices of Assistant Minister (not exceeding three or such number as Parliament may from time to time provide) as may be established by Parliament or, subject to the provisions of any Act of Parliament, by the President.
(3) Appointments to the office of Minister or Assistant Minister shall be made by the President from among Members of the National Assembly: Provided that-
(i) not more than four persons may be appointed as Minister or Assistant Minister from amongst persons who are not Members of the Assembly but are qualified for election as such; and
(ii) if occasion arises for making an appointment to the office of a Minister or an Assistant Minister while Parliament is dissolved a person who was a Member of the Assembly before the dissolution may be appointed as a Minister or an Assistant Minister. (Sec. 42)
Government
- English(1) The Federal Chancellor shall be elected by the Bundestag without debate on the proposal of the Federal President.
(2) The person who receives the votes of a majority of the Members of the Bundestag shall be elected. The person elected shall be appointed by the Federal President.
(3) If the person proposed by the Federal President is not elected, the Bundestag may elect a Federal Chancellor within fourteen days after the ballot by the votes of more than one half of its Members.
… (Art. 63) - German(1) Der Bundeskanzler wird auf Vorschlag des Bundespräsidenten vom Bundestage ohne Aussprache gewählt.
(2) Gewählt ist, wer die Stimmen der Mehrheit der Mitglieder des Bundestages auf sich vereinigt. Der Gewählte ist vom Bundespräsidenten zu ernennen.
(3) Wird der Vorgeschlagene nicht gewählt, so kann der Bundestag binnen vierzehn Tagen nach dem Wahlgange mit mehr als der Hälfte seiner Mitglieder einen Bundeskanzler wählen.
… (Art. 63)
Government
- English1. Cabinet Ministers shall be appointed by the President with the approval of Parliament from among members of Parliament or persons qualified to be elected members of Parliament.
… (Art. 113)
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
- EnglishA member of the National Assembly must:
a. be originally of Kuwaiti nationality in accordance with the Law;
b. fulfill the voter's qualifications in accordance with the Electoral Law;
c. have attained at least the age of thirty Gregorian calendar years on election day; and
d. have a sound reading and writing knowledge of Arabic. (Art. 82) - Arabicيشترط في عضو مجلس الأمة:
أ. أن يكون كويتي الجنسية صفة أصلية وفقا للقانون.
ب. أن تتوافر فيه شروط الناخب وفقا لقانون الانتخاب.
ج. ألا يقل سنه يوم الانتخاب عن ثلاثين سنة ميلادية.
د .أن يجيد قراءة اللغة العربية وكتابتها. (المادّة 82)
Government
- EnglishThe Government consists of the Prime Minister, Head of Government[,] and the Ministers. (Art. 51)
- FrenchLe Gouvernement comprend le Premier Ministre, Chef du Gouvernement et les Ministres. (Art. 51)
Government
- English
The Government of the Republic shall be made up by the President of the Council and the Ministers who together form the Council of Ministers.
The President of the Republic shall appoint a President of the Council of Ministers, on whose proposal the President of the Republic shall appoint Ministers. (Art. 92) - Italian
Il Governo della Repubblica è composto del Presidente del Consiglio e dei Ministri, che costituiscono insieme il Consiglio dei Ministri.
Il Presidente della Repubblica nomina il Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri e, su proposta di questo, i Ministri. (Art. 92)
Government
- English(1) There shall be a Cabinet of Ministers for Belize which shall consist of the Prime Minister and the other Ministers:
…
(2) The Cabinet shall be the principal executive instrument of policy with general direction and control of the Government and shall be collectively responsible to the National Assembly … (Sec. 44)