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Article 26
The national sovereignty shall belong to the people as a whole who shall exercise it
by their representatives or by means of referendum.
Article 27
• Secret ballot
• Claim of universal suffrage
Suffrage shall be universal, equal and secret.
• Restrictions on voting
Electors shall be, within the conditions determined by law, every citizen of voting
age, possessing their civic and political rights.
• Right to form political parties
Article 28
Parties shall comply with the expression of suffrage. They shall form and exercise
freely their activities within the conditions determined by law.
They shall respect the principles of national sovereignty, democracy, territorial
integrity, national unity and the secularity of the State.
TITLE III: THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC
• Name/structure of executive(s)
Article 29
The President of the Republic shall be the Chief of State.
He shall be the guardian of the Constitution. He shall incarnate the national unity. He
shall be the guarantor of national independence, territorial integrity, respect of
treaties and international agreements. He shall assure the regular function of public
powers and the continuity of the State.
Article 30
• Head of state selection
• Head of state term length
The President of the Republic shall be elected for five years by direct universal
suffrage and by an absolute majority of the votes cast. If this is not obtained on the
first ballot there shall be a second ballot.
• Head of state term limits
He shall be re-eligible only once.
• Eligibility for head of state
Article 31
Every candidate for the Presidency of the Republic shall be of native Malian
nationality and in possession of all his civic and political rights.
Article 32
The presidential elections shall be at least twenty one days and not more than forty
days before the expiration of the mandate of the current President.
Mali 1992
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