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• Head of state immunity
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The President of the Republic is assisted by a Vice-President of the
Republic, to whom he may delegate some of his Constitutional faculties.
Before carrying out his functions, the appointment of the Vice-President of
the Republic is ratified by both Chambers of the Parliament in plenum
(pleno) and by simple majority of their members in the course of one
extraordinary session convoked to this effect by the President of the
Republic.
Article 34
The person of the Head of State is inviolable. The law regulates the privileges and
immunities of the Head of State after their mandate.
• Eligibility for head of state
• Constitutional interpretation
• Minimum age of head of state
Article 35
To be president of the Republic it is required:
a. To be an Equatoguinean by origin.
b. To be in enjoyment of the right of citizenship.
c. To have lived in the Country for five uninterrupted years.
d. To be able to interpret the Fundamental Law.
e. To have been elected in accordance with the Fundamental Law and other
laws.
f. To have forty years as a minimum.
g. To not have another nationality.
Article 36
• Head of state term length
• Head of state term limits
• Scheduling of elections
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The President of the Republic is elected for a term of seven years
renewable with the possibility of being reelected.
The mandate of the President of the Republic is limited to two consecutive
periods, not being able to present himself for a third mandate until
alternation is produced.
The presidential elections will be convoked on the seventh year of the
mandate of the President of the Republic in a date set by decree adopted by
the Council of Ministers.
• Scheduling of elections
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Equatorial Guinea 1991 (rev. 2012)
The elections shall be held 40 days before the expiry of the term of office of
the President of the Republic or later, but within 70 days after the
announcement of the date.
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