CHAPTER I: The executive power
Art. 70 - The President of the Republic, Head of the State, embodies the unity of the
Nation.
He is the guarantor of the Constitution.
He embodies the State within the country and abroad.
He addresses the Nation directly.
Art. 71 - The President of the Republic is elected by direct, secret and universal suffrage.
The election is acquired through the absolute majority of the expressed votes.
The other modes of presidential election are defined by the law.
Art. 72 - The President of the Republic exercises the supreme magistracy within the
limits defined by the Constitution.
Art. 73 - To be eligible to the Presidency of the Republic, the candidate should :
- have, solely, the Algerian nationality by origin;
- be a muslim;
- be more than fourty (40) years-old the day of the election;
- enjoy full civil and political rights;
- prove the Algerian nationality of the spouse;
- justify his participation in the 1st of November 1954 Revolution for the candidates born
before July 1942;
- justify the non-involvement of the parents of the candidate born after July 1942, in
actions hostile to the 1st of November 1954 Revolution;
- submit a public declaration of his personal and real estate existing either within Algeria
or abroad.
- Other conditions are prescribed by the law.
Art. 74 - The duration of the presidential mandate is five (5) years.
The President of the Republic can be reelected once only.
Art. 75 - The President of the Republic takes an oath before the People and in the
presence of the high authorities of the Nation, in the week following his election.
He enters into office after taking the Oath.
Art. 76 - The President of the Republic takes the Oath in the following terms :
” In the Name of God the Merciful and the Compassionate. Faithful to the great
sacrifices and to the memory of our martyrs as well as to the ideals of the eternal
November Revolution. I do solemnly swear by God the almighty that I will respect and
glorify the islamic religion, defend the Constitution, see to the continuity of the State and