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Legislature
- EnglishThe Pluri-National Legislative Assembly is composed of two chambers, the Chamber of Deputies (Camara de Diputados) and the Chamber of Senators (Camara de Senadores), and it is the only body with authority to approve and sanction laws that govern the entire Bolivian territory. (Art. 145)
- SpanishLa Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional está compuesta por dos cámaras, la Cámara de Diputados y la Cámara de Senadores, y es la única con facultad de aprobar y sancionar leyes que rigen para todo el territorio boliviano. (Art. 145)
Legislature
- English(1) Subject to the provisions of section 32 of this Constitution a person shall be qualified to be elected as a Representative if, and shall not be so qualified unless, he—
(a) is a citizen of Dominica of the age of twenty-one years or upwards;
(b) has resided in Dominica for a period of twelve months immediately before the date of his nomination for election or is domiciled and resident in Dominica at that date; and
(c) is able to speak and, unless incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause, to read the English language with a degree of proficiency sufficient to enable him to take an active part in the proceedings of the House.
(2) Subject to the provisions of section 32 of this Constitution, a person shall be qualified to be elected or appointed as a Senator if, and shall not be so qualified unless, he—
(a) is a Commonwealth citizen of the age of twenty-one years or upwards;
(b) is domiciled and resident in Dominica at the date of his appointment or nomination for election; and
(c) is able to speak and, unless incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause, to read the English language with a degree of proficiency sufficient to enable him to take an active part in the proceedings of the House. (Sec. 31)
Legislature
- English
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5. Election to the National Assembly shall be by two political parties established through a primary round of election in which all registered political parties may participate.
6. A primary round of election shall be held to select the two political parties for the general election on the expiry of the term of the National Assembly or in the event of dissolution under section 12 of this Article.
7. The two political parties obtaining the first and the second highest number of votes in the primary election shall be declared as the two political parties for the purpose of section 5 of this Article to contest in the general election.
... (Art. 15) - Dzongkha
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༥) ཐོ་བཀོད་གྲུབ་པའི་སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ཆ་མཉམ་གྱིས་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ཆོག་པའི་འགོ་ཐོག་ བཙག་འཐུའི་ འདེམས་རིམ་ བརྒྱུད་དེ་ གཞི་བཙུགས་གྲུབ་པའི་སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་གཉིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་བཙག་འཐུའི་དོན་ལུ་ཨིན།
༦) རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་གནས་ཡུན་ཚང་བ་ ཡང་ན་ རྩ་ཚན་འདིའི་དོན་ཚན་༡༢ པའི་ དགོངས་དོན་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ རྩ་གྲོལ་སོང་བ་ཡིན་ཚེ་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་གཉིས་གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ འགོ་ཐོག་བཙག་འཐུ་ཅིག་འབད་དགོ།
༧) འགོ་ཐོག་བཙག་འཐུའི་ནང་ རྒྱན་གྲངས་མཐོ་ཤོས་དང་པ་དང་གཉིས་པ་ཐོབ་མི་སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་གཉིས་པོ་དེ་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་ བཙག་འཐུའི་ནང་འགྲན་སྡུར་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ རྩ་ཚན་འདིའི་ དོན་ཚན་༥ པའི་དགོས་དོན་ལུ་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་གཉིས་ ཨིན་པའི་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་འབད་དགོ།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༥༽
Legislature
- English(1) Parliament is the supreme representative body of the Romanian people and the sole legislative authority of the country.
(2) Parliament consists of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. (Art. 61) - Romanian(1) Parlamentul este organul reprezentativ suprem al poporului român şi unica autoritate legiuitoare a ţării.
(2) Parlamentul este alcătuit din Camera Deputaţilor şi Senat. (Art. 61)
Legislature
- English(1) A candidate for election to Parliament must be either nominated by a registered political party or nominated as an independent candidate in accordance with the laws governing elections.
(2) A person may be a candidate for election to Parliament only if the person—
(a) is a citizen of Fiji, and does not hold citizenship of any other country;
(b) is registered on the Register of Voters;
(c) is ordinarily resident in Fiji for at least 2 years immediately before being nominated;
(d) is not an undischarged bankrupt;
(e) is not a member of the Electoral Commission, and has not been a member of that Commission at any time during the 4 years immediately before being nominated;
(f) is not subject to a sentence of imprisonment when nominated;
(g) has not, at any time during the 8 years immediately before being nominated, been convicted of any offence under any law for which the maximum penalty is a term of imprisonment of 12 months or more; and
(h) has not been found guilty of any offence under a law relating to elections, registration of political parties or registration of voters.
… (Sec. 56) - iTaukei(1) Na mata ni veidigidigi i na Palimedi me vakaturi mai na dua na isoqosoqo vakapolitiki e vakamatanitutaki se vakaturi me mata tuvakaikoya ka salamuria na lawa tabaki ni veidigidigi.
(2) E dua na tamata ena rawa me mata i na veidigidigi ni Palimedi kevaka—
(a) e lewenivanua ga e Viti ka sega ni lewenivanua ni dua tale na matanitu;
(b) e volai ena iVola ni Volayaca ni Veidigidigi;
(c) sa lewenivanua oti e Viti ni bera e 2 na yabaki me qai mai vakaturi;
(d) e sega ni beqaravu;
(e) e sega ni lewe ni Matabose ni Veidigidigi, se a lewe tu ni Matabose, ni bera e 4 na yabaki me qai mai vakaturi;
(f) e sega ni cakacakataka tiko na nona itotogi e valeniveivesu ena gauna sa vakaturi kina;
(g) e sega ni totogitaki ena vuku ni dua na cala vakalawa ka kena iyalayala ni totogi e 12 na vula se sivia e valeniveivesu ena 8 na yabaki ni se bera ni vakaturi kina ena veidigidigi; se
(h) e sega ni vakadeitaki vakalawa ni vakayacora e dua na cala ena lawa ni veidigidigi se lawa ni volayaca ni soqosoqo vakapolitiki se lawa ni volayaca ni veidigidigi.
… (Sec. 56)
Legislature
- English
(1) The National Assembly consists of—
(a) two hundred and ten members elected by secret ballot from the two hundred and ten constituencies into which Zimbabwe is divided; and
(b) for the life of the first four Parliaments after the effective date, an additional sixty women members, six from each of the provinces into which Zimbabwe is divided, elected through a system of proportional representation based on the votes cast for candidates representing political parties in a general election for constituency members in the provinces.
(c) a further additional ten youth members, that is, persons aged from twenty-one to thirtyfive years of age, one from each of the provinces into which Zimbabwe is divided, elected under a party-list system of proportional representation—
(i) which is based on the votes cast for candidates representing political parties in a general election for constituency members in the provinces; and
(ii) in which male and female candidates are listed alternately:
Provided that political parties must ensure that—
(a) ten of the sixty women members are under the age of thirty-five;
(b) women with disabilities are represented on their party lists; and
(c) young women with disabilities are represented on their party lists in terms of an Act of Parliament.
… (Sec. 124)
Legislature
- English…
The number of Members of the Croatian Parliament and the conditions and procedure for their election thereto shall be regulated by law. (Art. 72) - Croatian…
Zakonom se određuje broj, uvjeti i postupak izbora zastupnika u Hrvatski sabor. (Članak 72)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Chamber of Senators shall be composed of thirty members, elected directly by the people, in a single electoral district, pursuant to the guaranties and rules concerning suffrage contained in Section III and as stated in subsequent articles. … (Art. 94)
- SpanishLa Cámara de Senadores se compondrá de treinta miembros, elegidos directamente por el pueblo, en una sola circunscripción electoral, conforme con las garantías y las normas que para el sufragio se establecen en la Sección lII y a lo que expresan los artículos siguientes. … (Art. 94)
Legislature
- English1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 55 of this Constitution, a person who has attained the age of 21 years shall be qualified to be elected as an elected member of the Maneaba ni Maungatabu for an electoral district comprising or including Banaba if he is a citizen of Kiribati or a Banaban.
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3. A person shall be entitled to be registered as an elector on Banaba if he is Banaban or a citizen of Kiribati and is otherwise entitled under section 64 of this Constitution to be registered as an elector in that place.
… (Sec. 118)