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Legislature
- EnglishThe Senate shall consist of the twenty-two Principal Chiefs and eleven other Senators nominated in that behalf by the King acting in accordance with the advice of the Council of State: … (Sec. 55)
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...
2. Anyone who has attained the age of 25, for the preceding four years has been a citizen of only the Republic of Armenia, has permanently resided in the Republic of Armenia for the preceding four years, has voting right, and has a command of the Armenian language may be elected as a member of the National Assembly.
... (Art. 48) - Armenian…
2. Ազգային ժողովի պատգամավոր կարող է ընտրվել քսանհինգ տարին լրացած, վերջին չորս տարում միայն Հայաստանի Հանրապետության քաղաքացի հանդիսացող, վերջին չորս տարում Հայաստանի Հանրապետությունում մշտապես բնակվող, ընտրական իրավունք ունեցող և հայերենին տիրապետող յուրաքանչյուր ոք:
… (Հոդված 48)
Legislature
- EnglishElections shall be direct and the elected persons shall be elected directly by the citizens. (Art. 121)
- RussianВыборы являются прямыми и выборные лица избираются гражданами непосредственно. (Статья 121)
- TurkmenSaýlawlar göni saýlawlardyr we saýlanylýan adamlar raýatlar tarapyndan gös-göni saýlanýarlar. (121-nji madda)
Legislature
- English(1) Subject to this Constitution, the legislative power of the People is vested in the National Parliament.
… (Sec. 100)
Legislature
- EnglishThe qualifications of a senator shall be the same as those of a member of the House of Representatives. (Sec. 16)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Parliament consists of a single chamber named [the] National Assembly. (Art. 59)
- FrenchLe Parlement comprend une chambre unique appelée Assemblée Nationale. (Art. 59)
Legislature
- EnglishTo be elected Deputy [it] is required to be a citizen with the right of suffrage, [to] have become twenty-one years of age, [to] have completed secondary education, or [the] equivalent, and [to] have residence in the region to which the corresponding electoral district pertains for a period no less than two years, counted backwards from the date of the election. (Art. 48)
- SpanishPara ser elegido diputado se requiere ser ciudadano con derecho a sufragio, tener cumplidos veintiún años de edad, haber cursado la enseñanza media o equivalente, y tener residencia en la región a que pertenezca el distrito electoral correspondiente durante un plazo no inferior a dos años, contado hacia atrás desde el día de la elección. (Art. 48)
Legislature
- English
1. The National Assembly shall have a maximum of fifty-five members, elected from each Dzongkhag in proportion to its population, provided that no Dzongkhag shall have less than two members or more than seven members, for which purpose Parliament shall, by law, provide for each Dzongkhag to be divided into constituencies through appropriate delimitation, and for the voters in each constituency directly electing one member to the National Assembly.
... (Art. 12) - Dzongkha
༡) འབྲུག་གི་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་འདི་ནང་ མི་རློབས་ཀྱི་ཆ་ཚད་དང་བསྟུན་རྫོང་ཁག་ཚུ་ལས་ བཙག་འཐུ་ གྲུབ་པའི་ འཐུས་མིའི་གྲངས་བསྡོམས་མཐོ་ཤོས་ལྔ་བཅུ་ང་ལྔ་འོང་དགོཔ་ཨིན་ དེ་ཡང་ རྫོང་ཁག་གཅིག་ལུ་ འཐུས་མི་ གཉིས་ལས་ མ་ཉུངམ་ཅིག་དང་ བདུན་ལས་མ་ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ ཡོད་དགོ་པའི་ཁར་ དེའི་དོན་ལུ་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ འོས་འཚམས་ལྡན་པའི་ བཅད་མཚམས་བཟོ་སྟེ་ རྫོང་ཁག་རེ་རེ་བཞིན་དུ་འདེམས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ལུ་དཔྱ་བགོ་རྐྱབ་ཐངས་དང་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ འདེམས་ཁོངས་རེའི་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་སྐྱུར་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ འཐུས་མི་རེ་ཐད་ཀར་དུ་ བཙག་འཐུ་འབད་ནིའི་སྐོར་ལས་ ཁྲིམས་ཐོག་བཀོད་དགོ།
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Legislature
- English
1. Candidates for deputies are nominated at the constituency level by political parties or by voters. A candidate may only be brought forward from one of the proposing subjects, according to this paragraph. The rules for the registration of candidates for deputies are defined in the law on elections.
2. The law on elections determines also other necessary criteria and rules on the organization and conduct of elections, including those on registration of voters, conduct of electoral campaign, administration and validity of elections and declaration of their results. (Art. 68) - Albanian
1. Kandidatët për deputetë paraqiten në nivel zone zgjedhore nga partitë politike ose nga zgjedhësit. Një kandidat mund të paraqitet vetëm për një nga subjektet propozuese, sipas kësaj pike. Rregullat për regjistrimin e kandidatëve për deputetë përcaktohen në ligjin për zgjedhjet.
2. Në ligjin për zgjedhjet përcaktohen edhe kritere dhe rregulla të tjera të nevojshme për organizimin dhe zhvillimin e zgjedhjeve, duke përfshirë ato për regjistrimin e zgjedhësve, zhvillimin e fushatës zgjedhore, administrimin, vlefshmërinë e zgjedhjeve dhe shpalljen e rezultateve të tyre. (Neni 68)