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Article 91
The Commission is given the charge of the following missions:
a. To organize the elections at the national level, at the level of the communes
and at that of the collines;
b. To see to it that the elections are free, regular and transparent;
c. To proclaim the provisional results of the elections within a time period
specified by the law;
d. To promulgate the arrangements, the code of conduct and the technical
details, including the location of the polls [bureaux de vote] and the hours in
which they are open;
e. To hear the claims concerning the respect for the electoral rules and to
process them. The decisions of the Commission are without appeal;
f. To see to it, applying the appropriate rules, that the electoral campaigns do
not take place [se déroulent] in a manner that incites to ethnic violence or
in any other manner contrary to this Constitution;
g. To assure the respect for the provisions of this Constitution relative to
multi-ethnicity and to gender and to take cognizance of the claims in this
respect.
TITLE V: OF THE EXECUTIVE POWER
• Name/structure of executive(s)
Article 92
The executive power is exercised by a President of the Republic, two
Vice-Presidents of the Republic and the members of the Government.
Article 93
An organic law establishes the regime of the indemnities and advantages of the
President, of the Vice-Presidents and of the members of the Government as well as
the regime of the incompatibilities. It also specifies their specific regime of social
security.
Article 94
At the moment of [lors] entering into [their] functions and at the end of these-ones,
the President of the Republic, the Vice-Presidents of the Republic and the members
of the Government are required to make on their honor a written declaration of their
assets and patrimony addressed to the Supreme Court.
Burundi 2005
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