The Executive authority shall be vested in the Council of Ministers. It shall be the authority to which the armed forces are subject. Among the authorities that it shall exercise are the following:
1. It shall set the general policy of the government in all fields, draw up Bills and
organizational Decrees and take the decisions necessary for implementing them.
2. It shall watch over the execution of laws and regulations and supervise the activities of all the Government's branches including the civil, military, and security administrations and institutions.
3. It shall appoint state employees, dismiss them and accept their resignations according to the law.
4. It shall dissolve the Chamber of Deputies upon the request of the President of the Republic if the Chamber of Deputies, for no compelling reasons, fails to meet during one of its regular sessions and fails to meet throughout two successive extraordinary sessions, each longer than one month, or if the Chamber returns the entire budget plan with the aim of paralyzing the Government. This right cannot be exercised a second time if it is for the same
reasons which led to the dissolution of the Chamber the first time.
5. The Council of Ministers shall meet periodically in a special seat, and the President
of the republic shall chair its meetings when he attends. The legal quorum for a Council meeting shall be a two-thirds majority of its members. It shall make its decisions by consensus. If that is not possible, it makes its decisions by vote of the majority of attending members. Basic issues shall require the approval of two thirds of the members of the government named in the Decree of its formation. The following issues are considered basic:
The amendment of the constitution, the declaration of a state of emergency and its
termination, war and peace, general mobilization, international, long-term comprehensive
development plans, the appointment of employees of grade one and its equivalent, the reconsideration of the administrative divisions, the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies,
electoral laws, nationality laws, personal status laws, and the dismissal of Ministers.
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