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If the Parliament has not voted the budget by the end of this session, the budget is
definitively established by decree-law taken in the Council of Ministers.
• Budget bills
Article 178
A Court of Accounts is created given the charge of examining and certifying the
accounts of all the public services. It assists the Parliament in the control of the
execution of the law of finances.
The Court of Accounts presents to the Parliament a report on the regularity of the
general account of the State and confirms whether the funds have been used in
accordance with the established procedures and with the budget approved by the
Parliament.
It gives a copy of that report to the Government.
The Court of Accounts is provided with the resources necessary to accomplish its
functions.
The law determines its missions, its organization, its competences, its functioning
and the procedure followed before it.
3. OF THE SENATE
• Eligibility for second chamber
• Minimum age for second chamber
Article 179
The candidate to the elections of the Senators must be of Burundian nationality,
being already thirty-five years old at the moment of the elections, [and] enjoy all
their civil and political rights.
The candidate to the senatorial elections must not have been convicted for a crime
or misdemeanor of common law to a penalty determined by the electoral law.
The electoral law specifies equally the time period after which a person condemned
in the sense of the preceding paragraph may recover their eligibility since the
execution of the sentence.
• Second chamber representation quotas
• Second chamber selection
Article 180
The Senate is composed of:
1. Two delegates from each province, elected by an electoral college
composed of members of the communal councils of the considered
province, originating from different ethnic communities and elected by
distinct ballots;
2. Three persons originating from the Twa ethnicity;
3. The former Heads of the State.
A minimum of 30% of women is assured. The electoral law determines the practical
modalities, with co-optation the case arising.
Article 181
The Independent National Electoral Commission verifies the receivability of the
candidatures. These candidatures emanate from the political parties or may be
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