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Article 111
The President of the Republic appoints to the superior offices [emplois], civil and
military.
An organic law determines the categories of offices specified in the preceding
paragraph.
The appointments to the high civil, military and judicial functions as specified in
Article 187-9 of this Constitution only become effective if they are approved by the
Senate.
• Head of state powers
Article 112
The President of the Republic appoints and recalls the ambassadors and the
extraordinary envoys to foreign States and receives the letters of credentials and of
recalls of the ambassadors and extraordinary envoys from foreign States.
• Power to pardon
Article 113
The President of the Republic has the right of pardon which he exercises after
consultation with the two Vice-Presidents of the Republic and after [the] opinion of
the Superior Council of the Magistrature.
• Head of state powers
Article 114
The President of the Republic confers the national orders and the decorations of the
Republic.
• Emergency provisions
Article 115
When the institutions of the Republic, the independence of the nation, the integrity
of the territory or the execution of its international engagements are menaced in a
grave and immediate manner and the regular functioning of the public powers is
interrupted, the President of the Republic may proclaim, by decree-law, the state of
exception and take all the measures required by these circumstances, after official
consultation with the Government, with the Bureaus of the National Assembly and
of the Senate, with the National Council of Security and with the Constitutional
Court.
He informs the nation by way of a message.
These measures must be inspired by the willingness to assure to the constitutional
public powers, within the shortest time period, the means to accomplish their
mission.
The Constitutional Court is consulted [concerning] their subject.
The Parliament may not be dissolved during the exercise of the exceptional powers.
• Head of state removal
Article 116
The President of the Republic may be declared relieved of his functions for grave
fault, grave abuse or corruption, by a resolution taken by two-thirds of the members
of the National Assembly and of the Senate meeting [together].
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