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Before the Burundian people, sole holder of the national sovereignty, I (enounce the
name), Vice-President of the Republic of Burundi, swear fidelity to the Charter of the
National Unity, to the Constitution of the Republic of Burundi and to the law and
engage myself to dedicate all my forces to the defense of the superior interests of
the nation, to assure the unity and the national cohesion of the Burundian people,
social peace and justice. I engage myself to fighting any ideology and practice of
genocide and of exclusion, to promoting and defending the individual and collective
rights and freedoms of the person and of the citizen, and to safeguarding the
integrity and the independence of the Republic of Burundi.
Article 128
In the case of resignation, death or of any other cause of definitive cessation of the
functions of a Vice-President of the Republic, a new Vice-President of the Republic[,]
originating from the same ethnicity and of the same political party as their
predecessor[,] is appointed, following the same procedure, within a time period not
exceeding thirty days, counting from the definitive cessation of the functions of the
Vice-President to be replaced.
• Establishment of cabinet/ministers
3. OF THE GOVERNMENT
Article 129
• Eligibility for cabinet
The Government is open to all the ethnic components. It includes at most 60% of
Hutu Ministers and Vice-Ministers and at most 40% of Tutsi Ministers and
Vice-Ministers. A minimum of 30% of women is assured.
The members come from the different political parties that have received more than
one-twentieth of the votes and which so desire. These parties have the right to a
percentage, rounded to the inferior number, of the total number of Ministries at
least equal to that of the seats that they occupy at the National Assembly.
• Cabinet removal
• Restrictions on minister of defense
When the President revokes a Minister, it proceeds to his replacement after
consultation with his political party of origin [provenance].
Article 130
The President of the Republic, after consultation with the two Vice-Presidents of the
Republic, sees to it that the Minister given the charge of the Force of National
Defense is not of the same ethnicity as the Minister responsible for the National
Police.
Article 131
The Government determines and conducts the policy of the nation within the
framework of the decisions taken by consensus in the Council of Ministers.
• Powers of cabinet
• International law
Article 132
The Government deliberates obligatorily on the general policy of the State, the bills
of international treaties and agreements, the bills of laws, the bills of presidential
decrees, the orders [arrêtés] of a Vice-President and the ordinances of the Ministers
having a character of general regulation.
Burundi 2005
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