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Government
- English1. The National Council of Ministers shall be the highest executive authority in the Republic.
… (Art. 109)
Government
- EnglishThe President:
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9) nominates the Prime Minister candidate pursuant to § 89 of the Constitution;
10) appoints to and releases from office members of the Government of the Republic pursuant to §§ 89, 90, and 92 of the Constitution;
… (Sec. 78) - EstonianVabariigi President:
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9) määrab peaministrikandidaadi vastavalt põhiseaduse §-le 89;
10) nimetab ametisse ja vabastab ametist valitsuse liikmed vastavalt põhiseaduse §-dele 89, 90 ja 92;
… (§ 78)
Government
- English
The President of the Republic is the holder of the executive power. He is the head of the Government, and in this capacity, he determines and conducts the policy of the Nation. It exercises the regulatory power.
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He appoints, after consultative opinion of the Bureau of the National Assembly, the members of the Government.
… (Art. 54) - French
Le Président de la République est le détenteur du pouvoir exécutif. Il est le chef du Gouvernement, et à ce titre, il détermine et conduit la politique de la Nation. Il exerce le pouvoir réglementaire.
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Il nomme, après avis consultatif du Bureau de l’Assemblée nationale, les membres du Gouvernement.
… (Art. 54)
Government
- English
1. The Druk Gyalpo shall confer Dakyen to the leader or nominee of the party, which wins the majority of seats in the National Assembly, as the Prime Minister.
2. No person shall hold office as Prime Minister for more than two terms.
3. The Druk Gyalpo shall appoint Ministers from among the members of the National Assembly, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, or shall remove a Minister on the advice of the Prime Minister.
4. A candidate for the post of Prime Minister or Minister shall be an elected member of the National Assembly and a natural born citizen of Bhutan.
... (Art. 17) - Dzongkha
༡) འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་འདེམས་ཁྲི་མང་ཤོས་ཐོབ་མི་ཚོགས་པའི་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་ ཡང་ན་ དེའི་གདམ་ངོ་འདི་ལུ་བློན་ཆེན་སྦེ་བདག་རྐྱེན་གནང་ནི།
༢) མི་ཅིག་གིས་ བློན་ཆེན་གྱི་གོ་གནས་འདི་ གནས་ཡུན་ཐེངས་གཉིས་ལས་ལྷག་སྟེ་བཟུང་ནི་མེད།
༣) འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་འཐུས་མིའི་གྲལ་ལས་ བློན་ཆེན་གྱི་གྲོས་འདེབས་ཐོག་ བློན་པོ་ཚུ་བསྐོ་བཞག་གནང་ནི་ ཡང་ན་ བློན་ཆེན་གྱི་གྲོས་འབུལ་ཐོག་ བློན་པོའི་གོ་གནས་ལས་བཏོན་གཏང་ནི།
༤) བློན་ཆེན་དང་བློན་པོའི་གོ་གནས་ཀྱི་དོན་ལུ་འདེམས་ངོ་དེ་ བཙག་འཐུ་གྲུབ་པའི་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ ཚོགས་འདུའི་ འཐུས་མི་ཅིག་ཨིན་དགོ་པའི་ཁར་ རང་བཞིན་གྱི་སྐྱེས་ལུང་ལས་བརྟེན་པའི་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཨིན་མི་ཅིག་དགོ།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༧༽
Government
- English
1. The following shall be the exclusive responsibility of the Mazhilis:
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2) acceptance of the President's candidate for Prime Minister by a majority vote of the total number of deputies of the Chamber;
… (Art. 56) - Kazak
1. Мәжілістің ерекше қарауына мыналар жатады:
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2) Палата депутаттарының жалпы санының көпшілік даусымен Республика Президентіне Республика Премьер-Министрін тағайындауға келісім беру;
… (56-бап)
Government
- English1. There shall be a Cabinet which shall consist of the President, the Vice President, the Prime Minister and such number of Ministers as may appear to the President to be reasonably necessary for the efficient running of the State.
2. The functions of the Cabinet shall be to determine, formulate and implement the policy of the Government and to perform such other functions as may be conferred by this Constitution or any other law.
… (Art. 111)
Government
- English…
2. The executive powers shall be exercised by the President of the Republic and the Government.
… (Art. 26) - Greek…
2. H εκτελεστική λειτουργία ασκείται από τον Πρόεδρο της Δημοκρατίας και την Kυβέρνηση.
… ('Αρθρο 26)
Government
- EnglishThe President …
He appoints the Prime Minister, Head of Government and terminates his functions. On proposal of the Prime Minister, he appoints the other members of the Government and terminates their functions.
… (Art. 33) - FrenchLe President …
Il nomme le Premier Ministre Chef du Gouvernement et met fin à ses fonctions. Sur proposition du Premier Ministre, il nomme les autres membres du Gouvernement et met fin à leurs fonctions.
… (Art. 33)
Government
- English
1. The Cabinet of Ministers consists of the President, Vice-Presidents and other members of the Cabinet of Ministers.
The Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, his deputies and the members of the Cabinet of Ministers are appointed by the President with the consent of the Jogorku Kenesh.
... (Art. 90) - Russian
1. Кабинет Министров состоит из Председателя, заместителей Председателя и других членов Кабинета Министров.
Председатель Кабинета Министров, его заместители и члены Кабинета Министров назначаются Президентом с согласия Жогорку Кенеша.
... (Статья 90) - Kyrgyz
1. Министрлер Кабинети Төрагадан, Төраганын орун басарларынан жана Министрлер Кабинетинин башка мүчөлөрүнөн турат.
Министрлер Кабинетинин Төрагасы, анын орун басарлары жана Министрлер Кабинетинин мүчөлөрү Жогорку Кеңештин макулдугу менен Президент тарабынан дайындалат.
... (90-берене)
Government
- English(1) There shall be, in addition to the office of Prime Minister, such other offices of Minister of the Government as may be established by the National Assembly or, subject to the provisions of any law enacted by the National Assembly, by the Governor-General, acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister.
(2) Appointments to the office of Minister shall be made by the Governor-General, acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister, from among members of the House of Representatives and of the Senate:
Provided that persons holding the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate may not be appointed to the office of Minister:
Provided further that the Cabinet shall be comprised of -
(a) not more than two-thirds of the elected Members of the party that obtains the majority seats in the House of Representatives following the holding of a general election; and
(b) not more than four Senators:
Provided further that, subject to section 42(3) of this Constitution, a national of Belize may be appointed as Attorney General whether or not that person is a member of either House of the National Assembly.
… (Sec. 40)