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TITLE X: OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
COUNCIL AND OF THE ORGANS OF
CONTROL
• Advisory bodies to the head of state
Article 141
A consultative organ denominated the Economic and Social Council (CES), is
instituted.
The Economic and Social Council is charged to give its opinion on the questions of
economic, social or cultural character brought to its attention by the President of
Faso or the Government.
It may be consulted on any draft of [a] plan or of [a] program of economic, social or
cultural character.
The Economic and Social Council can equally proceed to an analysis of any problem
of economic and social development. It submits its conclusion to the President of
Faso or to the Government.
The Economic and Social Council may designate one of its members[,] on the demand
of the President of Faso or of the Government, to present before these organs, the
opinion of the Council on the questions which have been submitted to it.
An organic law establishes the composition, the organization and the functioning of
the Economic and Social Council.
Article 142
The organs of control are created by the law.
Their competence concerns question of economic, social and cultural character of
national interest.
The composition, the attributions and the functioning of these organs of control are
established by the law.
TITLE XI: OF THE TERRITORIAL
COLLECTIVITIES
• Subsidiary unit government
Article 143
Burkina Faso is organized in territorial collectivities.
• Subsidiary unit government
Article 144
The creation, the elimination, and the division of territorial collectivities is the resort
of the law.
Burkina Faso 1991 (rev. 2012)
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