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• Selection of active-duty commanders
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2°. has authority over the members of the Government of which he directs the
action, and is responsible for the coordination of the activities of the
ministerial departments as well as for the implementation of any national
program of development;
3°. has the initiative of law;
4°. orders the bills of laws to be submitted to the deliberation of the Council of
Ministers and to be presented to the Bureau of one of the two Assemblies;
5°. assures the execution of the laws;
6°. exercises the regulatory power under reserve of the provisions of Article
55 paragraph 3;
7°. sees to the execution of the decisions of justice;
8°. refers matters, as needed, to the General Inspection of the State and the
other organs of control of the Administration and assures the good
functioning of the public services, of the good administration of the
finances of the public collectivities and of the public organs of the State;
9°. assures the security, the peace and the stability on all the extent of the
national territory within respect for the national unity; to this end, he has at
his disposal all the forces in charge of the police, of the maintenance of
order, of interior security and of defense;
10°. in the case of grave political troubles and before the proclamation of the
situation of exception, he may have recourse to the forces of order to
restore the social peace after the opinion of the superior authorities of the
Police, of the Gendarmerie and of the Army, of the High Council of the
National Defense and of the President of the High Constitutional Court;
11°. is the Head of the Administration;
12°. appoints to the civil and military offices as well as to those of the organs of
the State, under reserve of the provisions of Article 55 paragraph 4.
He may delegate certain of his powers to the members of the Government.
He assures the balanced and harmonious development of all the Decentralized
Territorial Collectivities.
Without prejudice of the provisions of Article 55, he may, exceptionally, with an
express delegation from the President of the Republic and on a determined agenda,
preside over the Council of Ministers.
• Advisory bodies to the head of state
Article 66
The Prime Minister presides over the Council of the Government.
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