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Head of State
- EnglishExecutive Power is exercised by the President of the Republic, the Executive Vice-President, the Cabinet Ministers and other officials as determined by this Constitution and by law. (Art. 225)
- SpanishEl Poder Ejecutivo se ejerce por el Presidente o Presidenta de la República, el Vicepresidente Ejecutivo o Vicepresidenta Ejecutiva, los Ministros o Ministras y demás funcionarios o funcionarias que determinen esta Constitución y la ley. (Art. 225)
Head of State
- English(1) The executive authority of Singapore shall be vested in the President and exercisable subject to the provisions of this Constitution by him or by the Cabinet or any Minister authorised by the Cabinet.
… (Art. 23)
Head of State
- EnglishThe religion of the President of the Republic is Islam; … (Art. 3)
- Arabicدين رئيس الجمهورية الإسلام؛ ... (المادّة 3)
Head of State
- EnglishThe President of Ukraine is the Head of State and acts in its name.
The President of Ukraine is the guarantor of state sovereignty and territorial indivisibility of Ukraine, the observance of the Constitution of Ukraine and human and citizens' rights and freedoms.
... (Art. 102) - UkrainianПрезидент України є главою держави і виступає від її імені.
Президент України є гарантом державного суверенітету, територіальної цілісності України, додержання Конституції України, прав і свобод людини і громадянина.
… (Стаття 102)
Head of State
- EnglishThe bodies of the transitional government consist of the following:
(1) The Sovereignty Council, which is the head of state and symbol of its sovereignty and unity;
… (Art. 9) - Arabicتتكون أجهزة الحكم الإنتقالي علي النحو الأتي:
1.مجلس السيادة، وهو رأس الدولة ورمز سيادتها ووحدتها…
(الماده 10)
Head of State
- EnglishThe President of the Republic shall be elected directly by the public from among Turkish citizens over forty years of age who are eligible to be a deputy and have completed higher education.
The President of the Republic’s term of office shall be five years. A person may be elected as President of the Republic for two terms at most.
The President of the Republic may be nominated by political party groups, political parties which received at least five percent of valid votes on their own or collectively in the latest parliamentary elections or at least one hundred thousand voters. ...
In presidential elections conducted by universal suffrage, the candidate who receives the absolute majority of the valid votes shall be elected President of the Republic. If absolute majority cannot be obtained in the first ballot, the second ballot shall be held on the second Sunday following this ballot. Two candidates who received the greatest number of votes in the first ballot run for the second ballot, and the candidate who receives majority of valid votes shall be elected President of the Republic. ...
The other procedures and principles concerning the presidential elections shall be regulated by law. (Art. 101) - TurkishCumhurbaşkanı, kırk yaşını doldurmuş ve yüksek öğrenim yapmış Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi üyeleri veya bu niteliklere ve milletvekili seçilme yeterliğine sahip Türk vatandaşları arasından, halk tarafından seçilir.
Cumhurbaşkanının görev süresi beş yıldır. Bir kimse en fazla iki defa Cumhurbaşkanı seçilebilir.
Cumhurbaşkanlığına Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi üyeleri içinden veya Meclis dışından aday gösterilebilmesi yirmi milletvekilinin yazılı teklifi ile mümkündür. Ayrıca, en son yapılan milletvekili genel seçimlerinde geçerli oylar toplamı birlikte hesaplandığında yüzde onu geçen siyasî partiler ortak aday gösterebilir. ...
Genel oyla yapılacak seçimde, geçerli oyların salt çoğunluğunu alan aday, Cumhurbaşkanı seçilir. İlk oylamada bu çoğunluk sağlanamazsa, bu oylamayı izleyen ikinci pazar günü ikinci oylama yapılır. Bu oylamaya, ilk oylamada en çok oy almış iki aday katılır ve geçerli oyların çoğunluğunu alan aday, Cumhurbaşkanı seçilir.
Cumhurbaşkanı seçilenin, varsa partisi ile ilişiği kesilir ve Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi üyeliği sona erer. ...
Cumhurbaşkanlığı seçimlerine ilişkin diğer usul ve esaslar kanunla düzenlenir. (Madde 101)
Head of State
- EnglishThe candidate for the functions of President of the Republic must:
1. Have the quality of elector within the conditions specified by the electoral law;
2. Solely enjoy the Burundian nationality of origin [d’origine];
3. Be already [révolus] forty years old at the moment of the election;
4. Reside on the territory of Burundi at the moment of the presentation of their candidature;
5. Enjoy all their civil and political rights;
6. Subscribe to the Constitution and to the Charter of National Unity.
… (Art. 98) - KirundiUwitoza mu mabanga y’Umukuru w’Igihugu ategerezwa:
1. Kuba afise uburenganzira bwo gutora nk’uko bitegekanijwe n’Ibwirizwa rigenga amatora ;
2. Kuba afise gusa ubwenegihugu bw’umurundi yavukanye;
3. Kuba akwije imyaka mirongo ine igihe c’amatora ;
4. Kuba aba mu Burundi igihe yiyandikisha ngo yitoze ;
5. Kuba ata kimubuza kurangura amabanga y’igihugu n’ayaporitike;
6. Kwemeza mu rwandiko ko azokwisunga Ibwirizwa Shingiro n’Amasezerano y’Ubumwe bw’abarundi.
… (Ingingo ya 98) - FrenchLe candidat aux fonctions de Président de la République doit:
1. Avoir la qualité d’électeur dans les conditions précisées par la loi électorale ;
2. Jouir uniquement de la nationalité burundaise d’origine;
3. Etre âgé de quarante ans révolus au moment de l’élection;
4. Résider sur le territoire du Burundi au moment de la présentation de sa candidature;
5. Jouir de tous ses droits civils et politiques ;
6. Souscrire à la Constitution et à la Charte de l’Unité Nationale.
… (Art. 98)
Head of State
- EnglishA person is ineligible to become President unless he is a member of Congress for a 4-year term, a citizen of the Federated States of Micronesia by birth, and a resident of the Federated States of Micronesia for at least 15 years. (Art. X, Sec. 4)
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
- English1. There shall be a President of the Republic who shall be the Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Force.
2. The executive authority of the State vests in the President and, subject to this Constitution, shall be exercised directly by the President or through public officers or other persons appointed by the President.
3. The President shall, in exercise of the executive authority of the State—
a. respect, uphold and safeguard this Constitution;
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e. promote and protect the rights and freedoms of a person; and
f. uphold the rule of law. (Art. 91)