Second Section
POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT

Article 99
The executive power is vested in the President.

Article 100
The President shall have the supreme authority over the armed forces.

Article 101
The President shall have the direction of foreign relations and shall promote the development of the international legal order.

Article 102

1. The President shall not declare the Republic of Suriname to be at war, in danger of war of in state of siege, except with the previous consent of the National Assembly. This consent shall not be required when, as a result of force majeure, consultation with the National Assembly has appeared to be impossible.
2. The President shall not declare war, danger of war or state of siege between the State of Suriname and another power to be terminated, except with the previous consent of the National Assembly. This consent shall not be required when, as a result of force majeure, consultation with the National Assembly is not possible.
3. To maintain external and domestic security, in case of war, danger of war or in case of serious threat to or disturbance of the domestic order and peace which could result in substantial damage to the interests of the State, the President can declare the state of emergency in any part of Suriname, subject to previous consent of the National Assembly.
4. The President shall not declare the State of emergency to be terminated, except with previous consent of the National Assembly. This consent is not required when consultation with the National Assembly has, as a result of force majeure, appeared to be impossible.

Article 103
Agreements with other powers and with organizations based on international law shall be concluded by, or by authority of, the President and shall be, insofar as the agreements require, ratified by the President. These agreements shall be communicated to the National Assembly as soon as possible; they shall not be ratified and they shall not enter into force until they have received the approval of the National Assembly.

Article 104

1. Approval shall be given either explicitly or implicitly. Explicit agreement shall be given by an act. Implicit approval has been given if, within thirty days after the agreement has been submitted for that purpose to the National Assembly, no statement has been made by the National assembly expressing the wish that the agreement be subject to explicit approval.
2. The law determines the cases in which no approval is required.

Article 105
The provisions of the agreements mentioned in article 103 which may be directly applicable to anyone shall have this binding effect as from the time of publication.

Article 106
Legal regulations in force in the Republic of Suriname shall not apply, if this application should be incompatible with provisions that are directly applicable to anyone, to agreements entered into either before or after the enactment of the regulations.

Article 107
The law shall regulate the publication of agreements and of decisions of organizations based on international law.

Article 108
On proposal of the Government, the President confers honorary orders of the Republic of Suriname upon people who are eligible thereto.

Article 109
The President shall have the right to grant pardons for penalties inflicted by judicial sentence. He shall exercise this right after having ascertained the opinion of the judge, who had taken the judicial sentence.

POWERS WITH REGARD TO OTHER ORGANS

Article 110
The President furthermore has the powers;

a. To constitute the Council of Ministers, after consultation, including with regard to the results of the elections;

b. To direct the preparatory work for the government programme

c. To direct the activities of the State Council;

d. To convoke, if he wishes, and to lead the meetings of the Council of Ministers;

e. To appoint and remove ministers from office;

f. To ratify the proposals of law and general administrative measures that have been passed;

g. To ratify the decisions of the State Council and to take care they are promulgated in the Official Journal of the Republic of Suriname;

h. To appoint to suspend and to discharge any person to whom a public service is entrusted, inasmuch as appointing, suspending or discharging has not been reserved to another state organ.

POWERS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Article 111
In international relations the President has the power:

a. To appoint, to discharge, to replace and to suspend diplomatic representatives of the Republic of Suriname;

b. To accredit or not to accredit diplomatic representatives of other states;

c. To accept letters of accreditation of foreign diplomatic representatives.

Article 112
All other matters relating to the President shall be regulated by law.