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憲法第139条によれば、大統領の排他的属性は以下の通りである。
To freely appoint and remove the ministers of government;
To represent the Nation in the acts of official character;
To exercise the supreme command of the public force;
To present to the Legislative Assembly, at the initiation of the first annual period of sessions, a written message relative to the various matters of the Administration and the political state of the Republic and in which he must, additionally, propose the measures that he judges important for the good functioning of the Government and the progress and well-being of the Nation;
To previously communicate to the Legislative Assembly, when he intends to leave the country, the motives for his trip.
第140条には、他の閣僚とともに、大統領の責務が以下の通りに記述されている。
To freely appoint and to remove the members of the public force, the employees and functionaries who serve offices of confidence, and the others that, in very qualified cases, the Law of [the] Civil Service determines;
To appoint and to remove, subject to the requirements provided by the Law of [the] Civil Service, the rest of the [public] servants of their dependency;
To sanction and promulgate the laws, regulate them, execute them, and see to their exact fulfillment;
In the recesses of the Legislative Assembly, to decree the suspension of [the] rights and guarantees that paragraph 7) of Article 121 refers to[,] in the same cases and with the same limitations established there[,] and immediately give account to the Assembly. The decree of suspension of guarantees is equivalent, ipso facto, to the convocation of the Assembly to sessions, which must meet within the following forty-eight hours. If the Assembly does not confirm the measure by two-thirds of the votes of the totality of its members, the guarantees will be considered restored. If because of lack of quorum the Assembly cannot meet, it will do so the next day with any number of Deputies. In this case, the decree of the Executive Power needs to be approved by [a] vote of no less than the two-thirds part of those present;
To exercise the initiative in the formation of the laws, and the right of veto;
To maintain the order and the tranquility of the Nation, to take the necessary measures [providencias] for the guarding of the public liberties;
To provide for the collection and the investment of the national incomes in accordance with the laws;
To see to the good functioning of the administrative services and dependencies;
To execute and to have fulfilled all that decided [on] or provided [for] in the matters of their competence [by] the tribunals of Justice and the electoral organs, at the solicitation of the same;
To celebrate agreements, public treaties, and concordats, to promulgate them, and execute them once approved by the Legislative Assembly or by a Constituent Assembly when that approval is required by this Constitution. The protocols derived from those public treaties or international agreements that do not require legislative approval will enter into force once promulgated by the Executive Power.
To render to the Legislative Assembly the reports that it solicits from them is the use of its attributions;
To direct the international relations of the Republic;
To receive the Heads of State as well as the diplomatic representatives, and to admit the Consuls of other nations;
To convoke the Legislative Assembly to ordinary and extraordinary sessions;
To send to the Legislative Assembly the bill of National Budget at the time and with the requirements determined in this Constitution;
To dispose of the public force to preserve the order, defense, and security of the country;
To issue navigation licenses;
To give themselves the appropriate regulations for the internal regime of their offices and to issue the other regulations and ordinances necessary for the prompt execution of the laws;
To subscribe the administrative contracts not included in paragraph 14) of Article 121 of this Constitution, under reserve of submitting them to the approval of the Legislative Assembly when they stipulate [the] exemption of taxes or rates, or [when] they have for their object the exploitation of public services, natural resources or wealth of the State.
The legislative approval of these contracts will not give them character of laws nor will exempt them from their administrative juridical regime. That provided in this paragraph will not be applicable to the loans or other similar agreements, referred to in paragraph 15) of Article 121, which will be governed by their special norms;
To fulfill the other duties and to exercise the other attributions that this Constitution and the laws confer to them.