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Article 99
Every candidacy to the presidential elections must be supported [parraineé] by a
group of two hundred persons formed taking into account the ethnic and gender
components.
The members of the supporting group [groupe de parrainage] must themselves meet
the fundamental conditions [conditions de fond] required for eligibility in the general
elections.
Article 100
The functions of President of the Republic are incompatible with the exercise of any
other elective public function, of any public employment and of any professional
activity.
Article 101
In the case that the candidate elected President of the Republic occupies a public
function, he is placed[,] of office[,] in [a] position of detachment from the
proclamation of the results.
In the case that he occupies a private function, paid or not, on his account or on the
account of a third [party], he ceases all activities from the proclamation of the
results.
• Head of state selection
Article 102
The election of the President of the Republic takes place in a uninominal ballot in two
rounds.
The President of the Republic is elected by an absolute majority of the suffrage
expressed. If this is not obtained in the first round, it proceeds, in a time period of
fifteen days, to a second round.
Only the two candidates who have obtained the greater number of votes in the first
round may present themselves in the second round of the ballot. In the case of
withdrawal [déssistement] of one or the other of the two candidates, the following
candidates present themselves in the order of their ranking after the first ballot.
The candidate having received the relative majority of the suffrage expressed is
declared elected in the second round.
Article 103
The mandate of the President of the Republic debuts on the day of his taking of the
oath and ends when his successor enters into [his] functions.
The election of the President of the Republic takes place one month at least and two
months at most before the expiration of the mandate of the President of the
Republic.
Article 104
• Dismissal of the legislature
If the President of the Republic in exercise stands as a candidate, the Parliament may
not be dissolved.
The President of the Republic may not, in addition, from the official announcement
of his candidature [and] until the election, exercise his power of legislating by
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