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Article 95
The emoluments of the members of the Government are specified by the Law of
Finance.
The Prime Minister benefits, additionally, from an endowment.
Paragraph 3: Of Provisions Common to the President of
the Republic and to the Government
Article 96
The functions of the President of the Republic are incompatible with the exercise of
any other elective office, any public, civil or military employment and any
professional activity.
The mandate of the President of the Republic is also incompatible with any
responsibility within a political party.
Article 97
The functions of a member of Government are incompatible with the exercise of any
other elective mandate, any public, civil or military employment and any professional
activity, with the exception of agricultural, artisanal, cultural, educational and
research activities.
They are equally incompatible with any responsibility within a political party.
Article 98
During their functions, the President of the Republic and the members of the
Government may not, by themselves or through an intermediate person, purchase,
or acquire in any other fashion, or lease an asset which belongs to the domain of the
State, of the Provinces or of the decentralized entities.
They may not take part, directly or indirectly, in public contracts for the benefit of
the administrations or of institutions in which the Central Power, the Provinces and
the decentralized administrative entities have interests.
Article 99
Before their entry into [their] functions and on the expiration of them, the President
of the Republic and the members of Government are held to submit, before the
Constitutional Court, a written declaration of their family patrimony, enumerating
their movable assets, and comprising assets, partnership shares, obligations, other
assets, bank accounts, their real assets, and comprising undeveloped lands, forests,
plantations and agricultural lands, mines and other real property, with indication of
the pertinent titles.
The family patrimony includes the assets of the spouse following the matrimonial
regime, of the minors and of the children, even of majority, the couple is responsible
for.
The Constitutional Court communicates this declaration to the fiscal administration.
In default of this declaration, allowing thirty days, the concerned person is deemed
resigned.
Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011)
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