constituteproject.org PDF generated: 18 Apr 2016, 15:29 Article 99 Every candidacy to the presidential elections must be supported [parraineé] by a group of two hundred persons formed taking into account the ethnic and gender components. The members of the supporting group [groupe de parrainage] must themselves meet the fundamental conditions [conditions de fond] required for eligibility in the general elections. Article 100 The functions of President of the Republic are incompatible with the exercise of any other elective public function, of any public employment and of any professional activity. Article 101 In the case that the candidate elected President of the Republic occupies a public function, he is placed[,] of office[,] in [a] position of detachment from the proclamation of the results. In the case that he occupies a private function, paid or not, on his account or on the account of a third [party], he ceases all activities from the proclamation of the results. • Head of state selection Article 102 The election of the President of the Republic takes place in a uninominal ballot in two rounds. The President of the Republic is elected by an absolute majority of the suffrage expressed. If this is not obtained in the first round, it proceeds, in a time period of fifteen days, to a second round. Only the two candidates who have obtained the greater number of votes in the first round may present themselves in the second round of the ballot. In the case of withdrawal [déssistement] of one or the other of the two candidates, the following candidates present themselves in the order of their ranking after the first ballot. The candidate having received the relative majority of the suffrage expressed is declared elected in the second round. Article 103 The mandate of the President of the Republic debuts on the day of his taking of the oath and ends when his successor enters into [his] functions. The election of the President of the Republic takes place one month at least and two months at most before the expiration of the mandate of the President of the Republic. Article 104 • Dismissal of the legislature If the President of the Republic in exercise stands as a candidate, the Parliament may not be dissolved. The President of the Republic may not, in addition, from the official announcement of his candidature [and] until the election, exercise his power of legislating by Burundi 2005 Page 19