Role and responsabilities of the President

The President of the Republic will be the guarantor of the Constitution, of the rights and freedoms of the citizen. In accordance with the rules set by the Constitution, it will adopt measures to protect the sovereignty of Bengen, its independence, and state integrity, guarantee the coordinated functioning and interaction of all organs of state power.

According to Article 77 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Bengen, the powers and obligations of the President of the Republic will:

  1. Promulgate and execute the laws issued by the Parliament of the Republic, providing for their exact observance in the administrative sphere.
  2. Freely appoint and remove Ministers of State, Ambassadors, Consuls General, and freely name and remove other employees of Parliament.
  3. Appoint, with the approval of the Republic’s Council, the Ambassadors, General Consuls, senior employees of the Treasury and the members of the collegiate bodies in charge of regulating matters of telecommunications, energy and economic competition.
  4. Appoint, with the approval of the Republic’s Council, the Colonels and other senior officers of the National Army, Navy and Air Force;
  5. Appoint the other officials of the National Army, Navy and Air Force in accordance with the laws;
  6. Preserve national security, under the terms of the respective law, and dispose of the totality of the permanent Armed Forces, that is, the Army, the Navy and the Air Force for the internal security and external defence of the Republic;
  7. Have the Bengenese Gendarmerie for the same objects;
  8. Declare war on behalf of the Federal Republic of Bengen, with prior law of the Parliament;
  9. Intervene in the appointment of the Prosecutor General of the Republic and remove them;
  10. Direct foreign policy and enter into international treaties, as well as terminate, denounce, suspend, modify, amend, withdraw reservations and formulate interpretative statements on them, submitting them to the approval of the Republic’s Council. In conducting such a policy, the holder of the Executive Power will observe the following normative principles: the self-determination of the peoples; non-intervention; the peaceful resolution of disputes; the proscription of the threat or use of force in international relations; the legal equality of the Provinces; international cooperation for development; respect, protection and promotion of human rights and the struggle for international peace and security;
  11. Call Parliament to extraordinary sessions;
  12. Provide the Judiciary with the aid it needs for the expeditious exercise of its functions;
  13. Enable all kinds of ports, establish maritime and border customs and designate their location;
  14. Grant, in accordance with the laws, pardons to the inmates sentenced for crimes under the jurisdiction of the federal courts;
  15. Grant exclusive privileges for a limited time, in accordance with the respective law, to the discoverers, inventors or perfectors of any branch of industry;
  16. At any time, opt for a coalition government with one or several of the political parties represented in the Parliament;
  17. Submit for consideration by the Republic’s Council, the short list for the appointment of Justices of the High Court of Justice and submit their licenses and resignations to the approval of the Republic’s Council itself; and
  18. Others expressly conferred by the Constitution.

Other faculties

  1. Confer decorations and titles of honour.
  2. Make appointments to senior military ranks.
  3. Make appointments to public offices as provided by law.
  4. Grant individual pardons.