President of Ethiopia
The President of the Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in accordance with Article 69 of the Ethiopian Constitution of 1995, the Head of State of Ethiopia . The constitution gives him almost exclusively representative and purely formal powers, while executive power rests with the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers. The current incumbent has been Sahle-Work Zewde since October 25, 2018 .
choice
In accordance with Article 70 of the Constitution, the election takes place as follows: The candidate for the office of President is nominated by the House of Representatives and then elected in a joint meeting of the House of Representatives and the Federal House (the two chambers of parliament), with a two-thirds majority being required. If a member of parliament is elected president, he or she must resign from parliament. The president's term of office is 6 years, with one re-election possible. Before taking office, the President must take the constitutional oath of office before a joint session of the Houses of Parliament.
Duties and powers under the Ethiopian Constitution
- Opening of the joint meeting of the House of Representatives and the Federal House at the beginning of their annual meetings (Art. 71, No. 1)
- Signing of the laws passed by the House of Representatives and submitted to it within 15 days - if you do not sign within this period, they will come into force without his signature (Art. 57)
- Proclamation of the laws and international treaties approved by the House of Representatives (Art. 71, No. 2)
- Appointment of the ambassadors and other ambassadors of Ethiopia on the proposal of the Prime Minister (Art. 71, No. 3)
- Acceptance of credentials from foreign ambassadors and envoys (Art. 71, No. 4)
- Awarding of medals, prizes and gifts (Art. 71, No. 5)
- Award of high military titles on the proposal of the Prime Minister (Art. 71, No. 6)
- Exercising the right to pardon (Art. 71, No. 7)
- Appointment of 6 legal experts as members of the eleven-member Constitutional Council on the proposal of the House of Representatives (Art. 82, No. 2c)
- Calling on the political parties to form a coalition government within a week if the previous Council of Ministers is dissolved due to the loss of the majority in the House of Representatives - if the parties cannot agree on the continuation of the previous coalition or on the formation of a new majority coalition, that has the dissolution of the House of Representatives and thus new elections result (Art. 60, No. 2)
See also
Web links
- Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 1995 (English, available at http://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/et/et007en.pdf )