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Article 133
The members of the Government are responsible before the President of the
Republic.
At the moment of entering into their functions, the members of the Government
solemnly take the following oath before the Parliament and the President of the
Republic:
"Before the President of the Republic, before the Parliament, I (enounce the name),
swear fidelity to the Charter of the National Unity, to the Constitution and to the
law. I engage myself to consecrate all my forces to the defense of the superior
interests of the nation, to promote the unity and the cohesion of the Burundian
People, social peace and justice in the accomplishment of the functions entrusted in
me. I engage myself to fight any ideology and practice of genocide and of exclusion,
and to promote and to defend the rights and freedoms of the person and of the
citizen."
Article 134
The members of the Government take, by ordinance, all measures to apply the
decrees of the President of the Republic and the orders of a Vice-President of the
Republic.
Article 135
The members of the Government make or propose the appointments in the public
administration and to the diplomatic posts taking into account the necessity to
maintain an ethnic, regional, political and gender equilibrium.
Article 136
The members of the Government are penally responsible for the infractions
committed in the exercise of their functions. They are justiciable by the Supreme
Court.
• Eligibility for cabinet
Article 137
The functions of member of the Government are incompatible with the exercise of
all [other] professional activity and the exercise of a parliamentary mandate.
4. OF THE PROVINCIAL AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• Subsidiary unit government
Article 138
The executive power is delegated, at the provincial level, to a Governor of the
province given the charge of coordinating the services of the administration working
in the province.
The Governor of the province exercises, in addition, the powers that the laws and the
regulations attribute to him.
• Subsidiary unit government
Burundi 2005
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