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Head of State

Ireland
  • English
    1 There shall be a President of Ireland (Uachtarán na hÉireann), hereinafter called the President, who shall take precedence over all other persons in the State and who shall exercise and perform the powers and functions conferred on the President by this Constitution and by law.
    2 1° The President shall be elected by direct vote of the people.
    2° Every citizen who has the right to vote at an election for members of Dáil Éireann shall have the right to vote at an election for President.
    3° The voting shall be by secret ballot and on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.
    …
    4 1° Every citizen who has reached his thirty-fifth year of age is eligible for election to the office of President.
    2° Every candidate for election, not a former or retiring President, must be nominated either by
    i not less than twenty persons, each of whom is at the time a member of one of the Houses of the Oireachtas, or
    ii by the Councils of not less than four administrative Counties (including County Boroughs) as defined by law.
    … (Art. 12)
  • Irish Gaelic
    1 Beidh Uachtarán ar Éirinn (.i. Uachtarán na hÉireann), ar a dtugtar an tUachtarán sa Bhunreacht seo feasta; beidh tosach aige ar gach uile dhuine sa Stát, agus ní foláir dó na cumhachtaí agus na feidhmeanna a bheirtear don Uachtarán leis an mBunreacht seo agus le dlí a oibriú agus a chomhlíonadh.
    2 1° Le vóta lomdíreach an phobail a thoghfar an tUachtarán.
    2° Gach saoránach ag a bhfuil ceart vótála i dtoghchán do chomhaltaí de Dháil Éireann, beidh ceart vótála aige i dtoghchán don Uachtarán.
    3° Is le rúnbhallóid agus de réir na hionadaíochta cionúire agus ar mhodh an aonghutha inaistrithe a dhéanfar an vótáil.
    …
    4 1° Gach saoránach ag a bhfuil cúig bliana tríochad slán, is intofa chun oifig an Uachtaráin é.
    2° Gach iarrthóir d’oifig an Uachtaráin, seachas duine atá nó a bhí ina Uachtarán cheana, is uathu seo a leanas nach foláir a ainmniú a theacht
    i fiche duine ar a laghad agus gach duine faoi leith díobh sin ina chomhalta, in alt na huaire, de Theach de Thithe an Oireachtais, nó
    ii Comhairlí ceithre Chontae riaracháin ar a laghad (agus Contae-Bhuirgí a áireamh) mar a mhínítear le dlí.
    … (Airteagal 12)