Editing Politics of Burkina Faso (section)

===Executive branch===
{{Office-table}}
|[[List of heads of state of Burkina Faso|President]]
|[[Ibrahim Traoré]]
|[[Burkina Faso Armed Forces|Military]]
|30 September 2022
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|[[List of heads of government of Burkina Faso|Prime Minister]]
|[[Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla]]
|''None''
|21 October 2022
|}

The president is elected by popular vote for a five-year term and may serve up to two terms. The prime minister is appointed by the president with the consent of the legislature.  The constitution of 2 June 1991, established a semi-presidential government with a parliament ({{Langx|fr|Assemblée}}) which can be dissolved by the President of the Republic, who is elected for a term of 5 years.

The year 2000 saw a constitutional amendment reducing the presidential term from seven to five years, which was enforced during the 2005 elections. Another change according to the amendment would have prevented sitting president [[Blaise Compaoré]] from being re-elected. However, notwithstanding a challenge by other presidential candidates, in October 2005, the constitutional council ruled that because Compaoré was already a sitting president in 2000, the amendment would not apply to him until the end of his second term in office, thereby clearing the way for his candidacy in [[Burkina Faso presidential elections, 2005|the 2005 election]]. On 13 November Compaoré was reelected in a landslide due to a divided political opposition.

In 2010, Compaoré was once again re-elected, and the term limit requirement was held to not apply to him. A proposed constitutional amendment in 2014 would have permitted him to run again, but public resistance led to the [[2014 Burkinabé uprising]], and Compaoré resigned on 31 October 2014. A transitional government headed by President [[Michel Kafando]] and Prime Minister [[Isaac Zida]] took power for a one-year mandate. Elections were to have been held in October 2015, but members of the [[Regiment of Presidential Security]] launched [[2015 Burkinabé coup d'état|a coup]] on 16 September 2015, detaining President Kafando and Prime Minister Zida. RSP commander [[Gilbert Diendéré]] named himself the head of the new [[military junta]], but popular resistance, backed by army and gendarmerie forces not aligned with the RSP, forced his resignation and the restoration of the transitional government a week later.

====Council of Ministers====
The Burkinabé [[Cabinet of Burkina Faso|Council of Ministers]] nominated on 5 March 2022 included prime minister [[Albert Ouédraogo]] and 25 ministers.<ref name="SahelIntell_new_govt_5Mar2023">{{cite web |access-date=2022-08-24 |first=Frédéric |language=fr-FR |date=2023-03-07|last=Powelton |title=Burkina Faso: Composition du nouveau gouvernement de la Transition |url=https://sahel-intelligence.com/26883-burkina-faso-composition-du-nouveau-gouvernement-de-la-transition.html |website=Sahel Intelligence |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240326190435/https://sahel-intelligence.com/26883-burkina-faso-composition-du-nouveau-gouvernement-de-la-transition.html|archive-date=2024-03-26|url-status=live}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>