Article 8 states:
Suffrage is universal, equal, secret, free and transparent. It may be direct or indirect in the conditions laid down by law… voters, under the conditions determined by the electoral code, [include] all Burundians of eighteen years old and enjoying their civil and political rights.
Article 156 states:
The mandate of Deputy and that of Senator ends by the death, the resignation, the permanent incapacity and the unjustified absence in more than one-quarter of the sittings [séances] of a session or when the Deputy or the Senator falls into one of the cases of forfeiture specified by an organic law.
Article 212 states:
A Magistrate may only be dismissed for
Article 266 states:
For the first elections, every Communal Council elects within it a Communal administrator and may remove him from his functions for a valid reason, such as corruption, incompetence, grave fault or diversion of funds. For the following elections, the National Assembly and the Senate may, after evaluation, legislate [that] the Administrator should be elected by universal direct suffrage…
Article 156 states:
The mandate of Deputy and that of Senator ends by the death, the resignation, the permanent incapacity and the unjustified absence in more than one-quarter of the sittings [séances] of a session or when the Deputy or the Senator falls into one of the cases of forfeiture specified by an organic law.
Article 212 states:
A Magistrate may only be dismissed for [a] professional fault or incompetence, and only by [a] proposal of the Superior Council of the Magistrature.
Article 266 states:
For the first elections, every Communal Council elects within it a Communal administrator and may remove him from his functions for a valid reason, such as corruption, incompetence, grave fault or diversion of funds. For the following elections, the National Assembly and the Senate may, after evaluation, legislate [that] the Administrator should be elected by universal direct suffrage…