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In case of force majeure, this time period can be prolonged to one hundred twenty
days at most, by the Constitutional Court referred to [the matter] by the
Independent National Electoral Commission.
• Subsidiary unit government
Article 198
[Amended by Law No. 11/002 of 20 January 2011.]
The Provincial Government consists of a Governor, of a Vice Governor and of the
Provincial Ministers.
The Governor and the Vice Governor are elected for a mandate of five years,
renewable one time, by the Provincial Deputies from within or from outside of the
Provincial Assembly. They are invested by ordinance of the President of the
Republic.
The Provincial Ministers are designated by the Governor from within or from
outside of the Provincial Assembly.
The composition of the Provincial Government takes into account the provincial
representation.
The number of Provincial Ministers may not exceed ten.
Before entering into [his] functions, the Governor presents to the Provincial
Assembly the program of his Government.
When this program has been approved by an absolute majority of the members
composing the Provincial Assembly, it invests the Ministers.
The members of the Provincial Government can be, collectively or individually,
relieved of their functions by the vote of a motion of censure or of no confidence of
the Provincial Assembly.
The provisions of the Articles 146 and 147 of this Constitution apply, mutatis
mutandis, to the members of the Provincial Government.
When a grave and persistent political crisis threatens to interrupt the regular
functioning of the provincial institutions, the President of the Republic can, by an
ordinance deliberated in the Council of Ministers and after agreement with the
Bureaus of the National Assembly and of the Senate, relieve the Governor of a
Province of his functions. In this case, the Independent National Electoral
Commission organizes the election of a new Governor within a time period of thirty
days.
Article 199
Two or more Provinces can, by common accord, create a framework for the
harmonization and coordination of their respective policies and manage in common
certain services of which the attribution concerns matters within their competence.
Article 200
A Conference of Provincial Governors is instituted.
It has the mission to issue opinions and to formulate suggestions on the policy to be
taken and the legislation to be enacted by the Republic.
The Conference of Provincial Governors is composed, in addition to the Provincial
Governors, of the President of the Republic, of the Prime Minister and of the
Minister of the Interior. Any other member of the Government may be invited into it.
It is presided over by the President of the Republic.
Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011)
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