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Legislature
- EnglishThe federal legislative power is exercised jointly by the King, the House of Representatives and the Senate. (Art. 36)
- DutchDe federale wetgevende macht wordt gezamenlijk uitgeoefend door de Koning, de Kamer van volksvertegenwoordigers en de Senaat. (Art. 36)
- FrenchLe pouvoir législatif fédéral s’exerce collectivement par le Roi, la Chambre des représentants et le Sénat. (Art. 36)
- GermanDie föderale gesetzgebende Gewalt wird vom König, von der Abgeordnetenkammer und vom Senat gemeinsam ausgeübt. (Art. 36)
Legislature
- EnglishI. The Chamber of Deputies shall have 130 members.
II. In each Department, half of the Deputies (Diputados) shall be elected by direct voting electoral districts. The other half shall be elected by proportional voting electoral districts, from lists headed by candidates for President, Vice President and the Senators of the Republic.
III. Deputies are elected by universal, direct and secret vote. In the single Districts, they are elected by simply majority of the voters; in the multiple districts, by a system of representation established by law.
IV. The number of Deputies must reflect the proportional vote obtained by each party, citizen group or indigenous people.
… (Art. 146) - SpanishI. La Cámara de Diputados estará conformada por 130 miembros.
II. En cada Departamento, se eligen la mitad de los Diputados en circunscripciones uninominales. La otra mitad se elige en circunscripciones plurinominales departamentales, de las listas encabezadas por los candidatos a Presidente, Vicepresidente y Senadores de la República.
III. Los Diputados son elegidos en votación universal, directa y secreta. En las circunscripciones uninominales por simple mayoría de sufragios. En las circunscripciones plurinominales mediante el sistema de representación que establece la ley.
IV. El número de Diputados debe reflejar la votación proporcional obtenida por cada partido, agrupación ciudadana o pueblo indígena.
... (Art. 146)
Legislature
- English(1) There shall be a Parliament of New Zealand, which shall consist of the Sovereign in right of New Zealand and the House of Representatives.
… (Constitution Act 1986, Sec. 14)
Legislature
- English1. The National Assembly is the people’s representative body.
2. The National Assembly shall exercise the legislative power.
3. The National Assembly shall exercise oversight of the executive power, shall adopt the state budget, and shall perform other functions stipulated by the Constitution.
... (Art. 88) - Armenian1. Ազգային ժողովը ժողովրդի ներկայացուցչական մարմինն է:
2. Ազգային ժողովն իրականացնում է օրենսդիր իշխանությունը:
3. Ազգային ժողովը վերահսկողություն է իրականացնում գործադիր իշխանության նկատմամբ, ընդունում է պետական բյուջեն և իրականացնում է Սահմանադրությամբ սահմանված այլ գործառույթներ:
... (Հոդված 88)
Legislature
- English
The members of the National Assembly are elected for five years by universal direct suffrage.
The regime of the ballots is determined by an organic law.
… (Art. 69) - French
Les membres de l’Assemblée Nationale sont élus pour cinq ans au suffrage universel direct.
Le régime des scrutins est déterminé par une loi organique.
… (Art. 69)
Legislature
- EnglishThe King appoints the members of the Senate and appoints the Speaker of the Senate from amongst them and accepts their resignation. (Art. 36)
- Arabicالملك يعين اعضاء مجلس الاعيان ويعين من بينهم رئيس مجلس الاعيان ويقبل استقالتهم. (المادّة 36)
Legislature
- English(1) Any person who is entitled to vote at Folketing elections shall be eligible for membership of the Folketing, unless he has been convicted of an act which in the eyes of the public makes him unworthy to be a Member of the Folketing.
… (Sec. 30) - DanishStk. 1. Valgbar til Folketinget er enhver, som har valgret til dette, medmindre vedkommende er straffet for en handling, der i almindeligt omdømme gør ham uværdig til at være medlem af Folketinget.
… (§ 30)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Senate is composed of members elected by direct vote in senatorial circumscriptions, in consideration of the regions of the country, each one of which will constitute, at the least, one circumscription. The respective constitutional organic law will determine the number of Senators, the senatorial circumscriptions and the form of their election.
... (Art. 49) - SpanishEl Senado se compone de miembros elegidos en votación directa por circunscripciones senatoriales, en consideración a las regiones del país, cada una de las cuales constituirá, a lo menos, una circunscripción. La ley orgánica constitucional respectiva determinará el número de Senadores, las circunscripciones senatoriales y la forma de su elección.
... (Art. 49)
Legislature
- EnglishThere shall be a national legislature for Solomon Islands, which shall consist of a single chamber and shall be known as the National Parliament of Solomon Islands. (Sec. 46)
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།
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