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Article 156
The composition, the organization, the attributions and the functioning of the
executive and deliberative organs as well as the mode and the conditions for the
election of their members, are established by the law.
• Subsidiary unit government
CHAPTER III: Of the Provinces
Article 157
The Provinces are Decentralized Territorial Collectivities endowed with juridical
personality, and with administrative and financial autonomy.
They assure the coordination and the harmonization of the actions of the
development of provincial interest and see to the equitable and harmonious
development of the Decentralized Territorial Collectivities in the Province.
The Provinces implement the policy of the development of provincial interest
defined and ordered in the Provincial Council.
In collaboration with the public and private organs, they direct, make dynamic,
coordinate and harmonize the economic and social development of the whole
Province and assure, as such, the planning, the territorial development and the
implementation of all the actions of development.
Article 158
• Claim of universal suffrage
The executive function is exercised by an organ directed by the Head of Province
elected by universal suffrage.
The Head of Province is the first person responsible for the strategy and the
implementation of all actions of the economic and social development of his
Province.
He is the Head of the Administration of the Province.
Article 159
• Claim of universal suffrage
The deliberative function is exercised by the Provincial Council whose members are
elected by universal suffrage.
The Deputies and the Senators from different circumscriptions of the Province are
members by right of the Provincial Council, with deliberative voice.
Article 160
The composition, the organization, the attributions and the functioning of the
executive and deliberative organs, as well as the mode and the conditions for the
election of their members, are established by the law.
Madagascar 2010
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