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Head of State
- English(a) The President of the State is elected by the Knesset for seven years. (b) The President will serve for one term only.
... (Basic Law: The President of the State (1964), Sec. 3) - Hebrew(א) נשיא המדינה נבחר על ידי הכנסת לשבע שנים; (ב)נשיא המדינה יכהן תקופת כהונה אחת בלבד.
… (חוק יסוד: נשיא המדינה (1964), סעיף 3)
Head of State
- English1. The President of the Republic is the Head of the State and takes precedence over all persons in the Republic.
… (Art. 36) - Greek1. Ο Πρόεδρος της Δημοκρατίας είναι ο Αρχηγός της Πολιτείας και προηγείται πάντων εν τη Δημοκρατία.
… (Αρθρον 36) - Turkish1. Cumhurbaşkanı Devlet Başkanıdır ve Cumhuriyetteki bütün şahıslara başkanlık eder.
... (Madde 36)
Head of State
- EnglishThe powers of the National Transitional Council and the Presidency Council shall be determined by a decree supplementing the Constitutional Declaration issued by the Revolutionary Committee. (Art. 12, Constitutional Declaration to organize the foundations of governance during the transitional period in Yemen)
- Arabicتحدد اختصاصات المجلس الوطني ومجلس الرئاسة والحكومة بقرار مكمل للاعلان تصدره اللجنة الثورية. (مادة12 الإعلان الدستوري لتنظيم قواعد الحكم خلال المرحلة الانتقالية في اليمن)
Head of State
- English...
b. Legislative authority is vested in the King and the National Assembly in accordance with the Constitution. Executive authority is vested in the King together with the Council of Ministers and Ministers, and judicial rulings are issued in his name, the whole being in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution. (Art. 32) - Arabic…
ب - السلطة التـشريعية يتولاها الملك والمجلس الوطني وفقاً للدستور، ويتولى الملك السلطـة التـنفيذية مع مجلس الوزراء والوزراء، وباسمه تصدر الأحكام القضائية، وذلك كله وفقا لأحكام الدستور. (المادّة 32)
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)
Head of State
- EnglishQualifications of the President and Vice-Presidents are as follows :
(a) shall be loyal to the Union and its citizens;
(b) shall be a citizen of Myanmar who was born of both parents who were born in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Union and being Myanmar Nationals;
(c) shall be an elected person who has attained at least the age of 45;
(d) shall be well acquainted with the affairs of the Union such as political, administrative, economic and military;
(e) shall be a person who has resided continuously in the Union for at least 20 years up to the time of his election as President;
Proviso: An official period of stay in a foreign country with the permission of the Union shall be counted as a residing period in the Union;
(f) shall he himself, one of the parents, the spouse, one of the legitimate children or their spouses not owe allegiance to a foreign power, not be subject of a foreign power or citizen of a foreign country. They shall not be persons entitled to enjoy the rights and privileges of a subject of a foreign government or citizen of a foreign country;
(g) shall possess prescribed qualifications of the President, in addition to qualifications prescribed to stand for election to the Hluttaw. (Sec. 59) - Burmeseနိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတ နှင့် ဒုတိယသမ္မတများ၏ အရည်အချင်းများမှာ အောက်ပါအတိုင်း ဖြစ်သည် -
(က) နိုင်ငံတော်နှင့် နိုင်ငံသားများအပေါ် သစ္စာရှိသူဖြစ်ရမည်၊
(ခ) မိမိနှင့် မိမိ၏မိဘနှစ်ပါးလုံး နိုင်ငံတော်၏အာဏာ ပိုင်နက်အတွင်း၌ မွေးဖွားသော တိုင်းရင်းသားမှ ဖြစ်သည့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသား ဖြစ်ရမည်၊
(ဂ) ရွေးချယ်တင်မြှောက်ခြင်းခံရသူသည် အနည်းဆုံး အသက်(၄၅) နှစ်ပြည့်ပြီးသူ ဖြစ်ရမည်၊
(ဃ) နိုင်ငံတော်အရေးအရာများဖြစ်သော နိုင်ငံရေး၊ အုပ်ချုပ်ရေး၊ စီးပွားရေး၊ စစ်ရေး စသည့် အမြင်များရှိရမည်၊
(င) သမ္မတအဖြစ် ရွေးချယ်တင်မြှောက်ခံရသည့် အချိန်နှင့်တစ်ဆက်တည်း အနည်းဆုံး အနှစ်(၂၀) နိုင်ငံတော်တွင် အခြေချနေထိုင်ခဲ့သူဖြစ်ရမည်၊
ခြွင်းချက်။ နိုင်ငံတော်၏ခွင့်ပြုချက်ဖြင့် နိုင်ငံခြားသို့တရားဝင်သွားရောက်သည့် ကာလ များကိုလည်း နိုင်ငံတော်တွင် အခြေချနေထိုင်ခဲ့သည့် ကာလအဖြစ် ထည့်သွင်းရေတွက် ရမည်။
(စ) မိမိကိုယ်တိုင်သော်လည်းကောင်း၊ မိမိ၏မိဘတစ်ပါးပါးသော်လည်းကောင်း၊ မိမိ၏ ဇနီး သို့မဟုတ် ခင်ပွန်းသော်လည်းကောင်း၊ မိမိ၏တရားဝင် သားသမီးတစ်ဦးဦးသော် လည်းကောင်း၊ ထိုတရားဝင်သားသမီးတစ်ဦးဦး၏ ဇနီး သို့မဟုတ် ခင်ပွန်းသော်လည်းကောင်း၊ နိုင်ငံခြားအစိုးရ၏ ကျေးဇူးသစ္စာတော်ကို ခံယူစောင့်ရှောက်ရိုသေသူ သို့မဟုတ် နိုင်ငံ ခြားအစိုးရ၏ လက်အောက်ခံဖြစ်သူ သို့မဟုတ် တိုင်းတစ်ပါး၏ နိုင်ငံသားဖြစ်သူများ မဖြစ်စေရ၊ ထိုသူများသည် နိုင်ငံခြားအစိုးရ၏ လက်အောက်ခံဖြစ်သူသော်လည်းကောင်း၊ တိုင်းတပါး၏ နိုင်ငံသားသော်လည်းကောင်း၊ ခံစားရသောအခွင့်အရေးများ နှင့် ကျေးဇူးခံ စားခွင့်များကို ခံစားနိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသူများ မဖြစ်စေရ၊
(ဆ) လွှတ်တော်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ၌ ရွေးကောက်ခံပိုင်ခွင့်အတွက် သတ်မှတ်ထားသည့် အရည်အချင်းများအပြင် နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတအတွက် သီးခြားသတ်မှတ်ထားသော အရည် အချင်းများနှင့်လည်း ပြည့်စုံရမည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၅၉)
Head of State
- EnglishThe President and Vice-President of the People’s Republic of China are elected by the National People’s Congress.
Citizens of the People’s Republic of China who have the right to vote and to stand for election and who have reached the age of 45 are eligible for election as President or Vice-President of the People’s Republic of China.
… (Art. 79) - Chinese中华人民共和国主席、副主席由全国人民代表大会选举。
有选举权和被选举权的年满四十五周岁的中华人民共和国公民可以被选为中华人民共和国主席、副主席。
… (第七十九条)
Head of State
- English
The Sultan is the head of the state, its most supreme representative, and its supreme commander. His person is inviolable, respect for Him is a duty, and His command is obeyed. He is the symbol of national unity and the vigilant guardian and protector of the state. (Art. 48)
- Arabic
السلطان رئيس الدولة، والممثل الأسمى لها، والقائد الأعلى، ذاته مصونة لا تمس، واحترامه واجب، وأمره مطاع، وهو رمز الوحدة الوطنية، والساهر على رعايتها وحمايتها. (المادّة ٤٨)
Head of State
- English
A citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan not younger than thirty five years, being in full command of the state language and permanently residing on the territory of Uzbekistan for at least 10 years, immediately preceding the elections, may be elected the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. One and the same person may not be the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan for more than two consecutive terms.
The President of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall be elected by citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the basis of the universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot for the term of seven years. The procedure for electing the President shall be defined by law of the Republic of Uzbekistan. (Art. 106) - Uzbek
O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Prezidenti lavozimiga o‘ttiz besh yoshdan kichik bo‘lmagan, davlat tilini yaxshi biladigan, bevosita saylovgacha kamida 10 yil O‘zbekiston hududida muqim yashayotgan O‘zbekiston Respublikasi fuqarosi saylanishi mumkin. Ayni bir shaxs surunkasiga ikki muddatdan ortiq O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Prezidenti bo‘lishi mumkin emas.
O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Prezidenti O‘zbekiston Respublikasining fuqarolari tomonidan umumiy, teng va to‘g‘ridan to‘g‘ri saylov huquqi asosida yashirin ovoz berish yo‘li bilan yetti yil muddatga saylanadi. O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Prezidentini saylash tartibi qonun bilan belgilanadi. (106-modda)
Head of State
- EnglishThe King is the Head of the State and is immune from every liability and responsibility. (Art. 30)
- Arabicالملك هو رأس الدولة وهو مصون من كل تبعة ومسؤولية. (المادّة 30)