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TITLE II: OF THE STATE AND OF NATIONAL
SOVEREIGNTY
• Official religion
• Separation of church and state
• Type of government envisioned
Article 31
Burkina Faso is a democratic, unitary and secular State.
Faso is the republican form of the State.
Article 32
National sovereignty belongs to the people who exercise it under the conditions
specified by this Constitution and by the law.
• Secret ballot
• Claim of universal suffrage
Article 33
Suffrage is direct or indirect and exercised under the conditions specified by the law.
Direct suffrage is always universal, equal and secret.
• National anthem
• National flag
• National motto
Article 34
The symbols of the Nation are constituted by an emblem, by a coat-of-arms, by an
anthem and by a motto.
The emblem is the tri-colored flag of rectangular and horizontal form, red and green
with, in its center, a yellow-gold star of five points.
• The law determines the coat-of-arms as well as the signification of its
constituent elements.
• The national anthem is the DITANYE.
• The motto is: UNITE - PROGRES - JUSTICE [Unity - Progress - Justice].
• Official or national languages
• Protection of language use
Article 35
The official language is French.
The law establishes the modalities of the promotion and of the official use of the
national languages.
TITLE III: OF THE PRESIDENT OF FASO
• Name/structure of executive(s)
Article 36
The President of Faso is the Head of the State.
He sees to the respect of the Constitution.
He establishes the principal orientations of the policy of the State.
He incarnates and assures the national unity.
Burkina Faso 1991 (rev. 2012)
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