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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།
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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
- EnglishThe Council of Ministers shall exercise the following powers:
First. To plan and execute the general policy and general plans of the State and oversee the work of the ministries and departments not associated with a ministry.
… (Art. 80) - Arabicيمارس مجلس الوزراء الصلاحيات الاتية:
أولاً. تخطيط وتنفيذ السياسة العامة للدولة والخطط العامة والاشراف على عمل الوزارات والجهات غير المرتبطة بوزارة.
… (المادة 80)
Government
- EnglishExecutive authority is vested in the Government of the Republic. (Sec. 86)
- EstonianTäidesaatev riigivõim kuulub Vabariigi Valitsusele. (§ 86)
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(1) There shall be a Cabinet of Ministers for Belize which shall consist of the Prime Minister and the other Ministers:
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(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)
Government
- English1. The Government exercises the executive power of the Republic of Kazakhstan, heads the system of executive bodies and manages their activities.
2. The Government is a collegial body and within its activities is accountable to the President of the Republic and Parliament.
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4. The competence, organization and activities of the Government are determined by constitutional law. (Art. 64) - Kazak1. Үкімет Қазақстан Республикасының атқарушы билігін жүзеге асырады, атқарушы органдардың жүйесін басқарады және олардың қызметіне басшылық жасайды.
2. Үкімет алқалы орган болып табылады және өзінің қызметінде Республика Президентінің және Парламенттің алдында жауапты.
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4. Үкіметтің құзыреті, ұйымдастырылуы мен қызмет тәртібі конституциялық заңмен белгіленеді. (Art. 64)
Government
- English1. The President of the Republic shall appoint the Prime Minister and on his recommendation shall appoint and dismiss the other members of the Cabinet and the Undersecretaries.
2. The leader of the party having the absolute majority of seats in Parliament shall be appointed Prime Minister. If no party has the absolute majority, the President of the Republic shall give the leader of the party with a relative majority an exploratory mandate in order to ascertain the possibility of forming a Government enjoying the confidence of the Parliament.
... (Art. 37) - Greek1. O Πρόεδρος της Δημοκρατίας διορίζει τον Πρωθυπουργό και, με πρότασή του, διορίζει και παύει τα λοιπά μέλη της Kυβέρνησης και τους Yφυπουργούς.
2. Πρωθυπουργός διορίζεται ο αρχηγός του κόμματος το οποίο διαθέτει στη Bουλή την απόλυτη πλειοψηφία των εδρών. Aν κανένα κόμμα δεν διαθέτει την απόλυτη πλειοψηφία, ο Πρόεδρος της Δημοκρατίας παρέχει στον αρχηγό του κόμματος που διαθέτει τη σχετική πλειοψηφία διερευνητική εντολή για να διακριβωθεί η δυνατότητα σχηματισμού Kυβέρνησης που να απολαμβάνει την εμπιστοσύνη της Bουλής.
... ('Αρθρο 37)
Government
- EnglishThe President of the Republic appoints the Prime Minister from within the parliamentary majority after consultation with it. He terminates his functions on presentation by him of the resignation of the Government.
If such a majority does not exist, the President of the Republic confides a preliminary capacitation [mission d'information] to a person with a view to identifying a coalition.
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The President of the Republic appoints the other members of the Government and terminates their functions on the proposal of the Prime Minister. (Art. 78) - FrenchLe Président de la République nomme le Premier ministre au sein de la majorité parlementaire après consultation de celle-ci. Il met fin à ses fonctions sur présentation par celui-ci de la démission du gouvernement.
Si une telle majorité n’existe pas, le Président de la République confie une mission d’information à une personnalité en vue d’identifier une coalition.
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Le Président de la République nomme les autres membres du gouvernement et met fin à leurs fonctions sur proposition du Premier ministre. (Art. 78)
Government
- EnglishFor the dispatch of the business that corresponds to the Executive Power there will be the Ministers of Government that the law determines. It will be possible to entrust one Minister with two or more Ministries. (Art. 141)
- SpanishPara el despacho de los negocios que corresponden al Poder Ejecutivo habrá los Ministros de Gobierno que determine la ley. Se podrán encargar a un solo Ministro dos o más Carteras. (Art. 141)