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Legislature
- EnglishI. The Chamber of Senators shall consist of a total of 36 members.
II. In each department, four Senators shall be elected in departmental districts by universal, direct and secret vote.
III. The assignment of seats for Senators in each department shall be made by a proportional system pursuant to the Law. (Art. 148) - SpanishI. La Cámara de Senadores estará conformada por un total de 36 miembros.
II. En cada departamento se eligen 4 Senadores en circunscripción departamental, por votación universal, directa y secreta.
III. La asignación de los escaños de Senadores en cada departamento se hará mediante el sistema proporcional, de acuerdo a la Ley. (Art. 148)
Legislature
- English
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The election of members of the National Assembly and the Local People'sAssemblies shall be carried out through the principles of universal equal direct suffrage and secret balloting.
… (Art. 4) - Lao
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ການເລືອກຕັ້ງສະມາຊິກສະພາແຫ່ງຊາດ ແລະ ສະພາປະຊາຊົນທ້ອງຖິ່ນແມ່ນປະຕິບັດຕາມຫຼັກການທົ່ວໄປ, ສະເໝີພາບ, ໂດຍກົງ ແລະ ລົງຄະແນນສຽງປິດລັບ.
... (ມາດຕາ 4) (ປັບປຸງ)
Legislature
- English
The legislative power is exercised by the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan. (Art. 81)
- Azerbaijani
Azərbaycan Respublikasında qanunvericilik hakimiyyətini Azərbaycan Respublikasının Milli Məclisi həyata keçirir. (Maddə 81)
Legislature
- English(1) Members of the National Assembly shall be elected by universal and equal suffrage in a direct and secret ballot, in elections which guarantee the free expression of the will of the voters, in the manner laid down in a cardinal Act.
… (The State, Art. 2) - Hungarian(1) Az országgyűlési képviselőket a választópolgárok általános és egyenlő választójog alapján, közvetlen és titkos szavazással, a választók akaratának szabad kifejezését biztosító választáson, sarkalatos törvényben meghatározott módon választják.
... (Az Állam, 2. cikk)
Legislature
- EnglishThere shall be elected by the nobles of the Kingdom from their number nine nobles as representatives of the nobles and there shall be elected by electors duly qualified seventeen representatives of the people.
… (Clause 60) - Tongan‘E fili ‘e he kau nopele ‘o e Pule‘anga mei he kau nopele ha toko hiva ko e kau fakafofonga nopele pea ‘e fili ‘e he kakai ‘oku ‘ata fakalao ha toko hongofulu ma fitu ko e kau fakafofonga kakai.
… (Kupu 60)
Legislature
- English1. The Assembly of the Republic is the highest legislative body in the Republic of Mozambique.
2. The Assembly of the Republic determines the norms that conduct the functioning of the State and the economic and social life through laws and deliberations of generic character. (Art. 168) - Portuguese1. A Assembleia da República é o mais alto órgão legislativo na República de Moçambique.
2. A Assembleia da República determina as normas que regem o funcionamento do Estado e a vida económica e social através de leis e deliberações de carácter genérico. (Art. 168)
Legislature
- EnglishIt corresponds to the Congress of the Republic to reform the Constitution, make the laws and exercise political control over the government and the administration.
The Congress of the Republic will be formed by the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives. (Art. 114) - SpanishCorresponde al Congreso de la República reformar la Constitución, hacer las leyes y ejercer control político sobre el gobierno y la administración.
El Congreso de la República, estará integrado por el Senado y la Cámara de Representantes. (Art. 114)
Legislature
- EnglishPersons who possess the following qualifications shall be entitled to be elected as the Pyithu Hluttaw representatives :
(a) person who has attained the age of 25 years;
(b) citizen who was born of both parents who are citizens;
(c) person who has resided in the Union of Myanmar for at least ten consecutive years up to the time of his election as Pyithu Hluttaw representative;
Proviso: The official period of stay in a foreign country with the permission of the Union shall be counted as a residing period in the Union,
(d) person who possesses qualifications prescribed by the Election Law. (Sec. 120) - Burmeseအောက်ပါအရည်အချင်းများနှင့် ပြည့်စုံသူသည် ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်သို့ လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အဖြစ် ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ခံပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသည် -
(က) အသက် ၂၅ နှစ်ပြည့်ပြီးသူ၊
(ခ)နိုင်ငံသားမိဘနှစ်ပါးမှ မွေးဖွားသောနိုင်ငံသားဖြစ်သူ၊
(ဂ) ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားလှယ် အဖြစ်ရွေးကောက်တင်မြောက်ခံရသည့် အချိန်နှင့် တစ်ဆက်တည်း ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်တွင် အနည်းဆုံး ၁၀ နှစ် အခြေချနေထိုင်ခဲ့သူ၊
ခြွင်းချက်။ နိုင်ငံတော်၏ခွင့်ပြုချက်ဖြင့် နိုင်ငံခြားသို့တရားဝင်သွားရောက်သည့်ကာလများကိုလည်းနိုင်ငံတော်တွင်အခြေချနေထိုင်ခဲ့သည့် ကာလအဖြစ် ထည့်သွင်းရေတွက်ရမည်။
(ဃ) ရွေးကောက်တင်မြောက်ခြင်း ဆိုင်ရဥပဒေတွင် သတ်မှတ်ထားသည့် အရည်းအချင်းများနှင့်ပြည်စုံသူ။ (ပုဒ်မ-၁၂၀)
Legislature
- EnglishThere shall be established a Legislative Council (to be known in Malay as Majlis Mesyuarat Negara), constituted in accordance with the provisions of this Part. (Sec. 23)
- MalayHendaklah diadakan Majlis Mesyuarat Negara yang ditubuhkan menurut peruntukan-peruntukan Bahagian ini. (Sec. 23)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Seimas shall consist of representatives of the Nation—141 Members of the Seimas, who shall be elected for a four-year term on the basis of universal, equal, and direct suffrage by secret ballot.
The Seimas shall be deemed elected when not less than 3/5 of the Members of the Seimas are elected.
The procedure for the election of the Members of the Seimas shall be established by law. (Art. 55) - LithuanianSeimą sudaro Tautos atstovai - 141 Seimo narys, kurie renkami ketveriems metams remiantis visuotine, lygia, tiesiogine rinkimų teise ir slaptu balsavimu.
Seimas laikomas išrinktu, kai yra išrinkta ne mažiau kaip 3/5 Seimo narių.
Seimo narių rinkimų tvarką nustato įstatymas. (55 straipsnis)