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Comparison of selected legal systems
Attribute	RomaniaReviewed	BurundiIndexed	ComorosReviewed
Legal family	Civil law	Civil law (Belgian tradition)	Mixed French civil law and Islamic law
System of government	Unitary semi-presidential republic	Unitary presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Constitution	Constitution of Romania	Constitution of the Republic of Burundi	Constitution of the Union of the Comoros
In force since	1991	2018	2001
Capital	Bucharest	Gitega	Moroni
Official languages	Romanian	Kirundi, French, English	Comorian, Arabic, French
Currency	Romanian leu (RON)	Burundian Franc (BIF)	Comorian franc (KMF)
Population	19,000,000	13,200,000	850,000
Division of powers	Semi-presidential: a directly elected President shares executive power with a Government answerable to Parliament, and constitutional conflicts between them are themselves justiciable before the Constitutional Court.	Presidential system with a Prime Minister, a bicameral Parliament of National Assembly and Senate with ethnic and gender quotas, and a judiciary headed by the Supreme Court with a separate Constitutional Court.	Federal. Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli each have a governor and their own assembly with substantial autonomy over local administration, while the Union handles defence, currency, foreign affairs and nationality.
How law is made	A bill goes to a first-notified chamber and then to the decisional chamber, whose vote is final. The President may return it once for reconsideration or refer it to the Constitutional Court before promulgation and publication in Monitorul Oficial.	Bills are examined in committee and plenary in both chambers; certain organic laws require reinforced majorities reflecting the ethnic balance provisions. The President promulgates.	Bills originate with the government or members of the Assembly of the Union, are examined in committee and passed by the Assembly, then promulgated by the President. Matters within island competence are legislated by the island assemblies, and disputes over the boundary between Union and island competence are a standing feature of Comorian constitutional practice.
Legal profession	Lawyers (avocați) are admitted through local bars affiliated to the UNBR after examination and a two-year traineeship; notaries and judicial enforcement officers are separate professions.	Avocats admitted through the Ordre des avocats du Burundi after a law degree and traineeship; the profession is concentrated in Bujumbura.	A small bar of avocats admitted after French-model legal training, supplemented by qadis who require religious-law qualification for the personal-status jurisdiction; many practitioners train in France or Madagascar.

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