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Legislature
- EnglishA Senator of Republic is elected by universal suffrage by an absolute majority of votes in the Primary Assemblies held in the geographic Departments, under the terms prescribed by the Electoral Law. (Art. 94-2)
- FrenchLe sénateur de la République est élu au suffrage universel à la majorité absolue dans les assemblées primaires tenues dans les Départements géographiques, selon les conditions prescrites par la loi électorale. (Art. 94.2)
Legislature
- English(1) For the purposes of the election of women Members of Parliament mentioned in Article 66(1) (b), political parties which took part in the general election in accordance with the procedure laid down and obtained at least five percentum of the total valid voters for Parliamentary election, shall propose to the Electoral Commission the names of women on the basis of the proportion of votes obtained by each party in the Parliamentary election.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subarticle (1), the following votes shall be counted as valid votes for the unopposed Member of Parliament in the constituent –
(a) where a political party has nominated a Presidential candidate, presidential votes cast in the constituency for a Presidential candidate from that political party; or
(b) where a political party has not nominated a presidential candidate, fifty one percentum of the votes of the total voters registered in the respective constituency.
(3) The names of the persons proposed to the Electoral Commission in accordance with subarticle (1) shall be declared to be the results of the election after the Commission is satisfied that the relevant provisions of the Constitution and of other legislation have been complied with.
(4) The list of names for women candidates submitted to the Electoral Commission by each political party for general election shall be the list to be applied by the Electoral Commission after consultation of the party concerned, for purpose of filling any vacancy of Members of Parliament of this category whenever the vacancy occurs during the life of Parliament. (Art. 78)
Legislature
- English1. The Jogorku Kenesh - the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic - shall be the highest representative body exercising legislative power and oversight functions within the limits of its competence.
2. The Jogorku Kenesh shall consist of 120 deputies elected for a five year term on the basis of proportional representation.
As a result of elections a political party may not be granted more than 65 deputy mandates in the Parliament.
Any citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic who has reached 21 years of age as of the election day and who possesses the electoral right, may be elected as a Deputy of the Jogorku Kenesh.
The procedure of electing the deputies to the Jogorku Kenesh including the establishment of an electoral threshold for passing to the Parliament, shall be defined in the constitutional law.
… (Art. 70) - Russian1. Жогорку Кенеш – парламент Кыргызской Республики – является высшим представительным органом, осуществляющим законодательную власть и контрольные функции в пределах своих полномочий.
2. Жогорку Кенеш состоит из 120 депутатов, избираемых сроком на 5 лет по пропорциональной системе.
По результатам выборов политической партии может быть предоставлено не более 65 депутатских мандатов в парламенте.
Депутатом Жогорку Кенеша может быть избран гражданин Кыргызской Республики, достигший на день выборов 21 года, обладающий избирательным правом.
Порядок избрания депутатов Жогорку Кенеша, включая избирательный порог для прохождения в парламент, определяется конституционным законом.
... (Статья 70) - Kyrgyz1. Жогорку Кеңеш – Кыргыз Республикасынын парламенти – мыйзам чыгаруу бийлигин жана өз ыйгарым укуктарынын чегинде контролдук кылуу милдеттерин жүзөгө ашыруучу өкүлчүлүктүү жогорку орган болуп саналат.
2. Жогорку Кеңеш пропорциялуу система боюнча 5 жылдык мөөнөткө шайлануучу 120 депутаттан турат.
Шайлоонун жыйынтыктары боюнча саясий партияга парламентте 65тен көп эмес депутаттык мандат берилиши мүмкүн.
Шайлоо күнүнө карата 21 жашка чыккан, шайлоого укугу бар Кыргыз Республикасынын жараны Жогорку Кеңештин депутаты болуп шайлана алат.
Парламентке өтүү үчүн шайлоо босогосун кошуп алганда Жогорку Кеңештин депутаттарын шайлоонун тартиби конституциялык мыйзам менен аныкталат.
… (70-берене)
Legislature
- English(1) HUNGARY’s supreme representative organ shall be the National Assembly.
… (The State, Art. 1) - Hungarian(1) MAGYARORSZÁG legfőbb népképviseleti szerve az Országgyűlés.
… (Az Állam, 1. cikk)
Legislature
- English
The Deputies of the National Assembly are elected by universal direct suffrage for five years. (Art. 86)
- French
Les députés à l'Assemblée nationale sont élus au suffrage universel direct pour cinq ans. (Art. 86)
Legislature
- English
1. To be Deputy the following qualifications [calidades] are required:
a. To be a national of Nicaragua. Those who have acquired other nationality must have renounced it at least four years before the election is verified.
b. To be in full enjoyment of one's civil and political rights;
c. To have completed twenty-one years of age;
d. To have resided or worked in continuous form in the country [for] the four years prior to the election, save that during this period [periodo] fulfilling diplomatic missions or working in international organs [organismos] or realizing studies abroad. Also, to have been born or resided for the last two years in the Department or Autonomous Region for which he intends to be [salir] elected.
... (Art. 134) - Spanish
1) Para ser Diputado se requieren las siguientes calidades:
a) Ser nacional de Nicaragua. Quienes hayan adquirido otra nacionalidad deberán haber renunciado a ella al menos cuatro años antes de verificarse la elección.
b) Estar en pleno goce de sus derechos civiles y políticos.
c) Haber cumplido veintiún años de edad.
d) Haber residido en forma continuada en el país los cuatro años anteriores a la elección, salvo que durante dicho período cumpliere misiones diplomáticas, o trabajare en organismos internacionales o realizare estudios en el extranjero. Además, haber nacido o haber residido durante los últimos dos años en el Departamento o Región Autónoma por el cual se pretende salir electo.
... (Art. 134)
Legislature
- English1. A Member of Parliament shall be elected in accordance with Article 47 (2) and this Article.
2. The National Assembly shall consist of—
a. one hundred and fifty-six members directly elected on the basis of a simple majority vote under the first-past-the-post system;
b. not more than eight nominated members;
c. the Vice-President;
... (Art. 68)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Pyidaungsu Hluttaw comprises of the following two Hluttaws :
(a) in accord with the provisions of Section 109, the Pyithu Hluttaw formed with Hluttaw representatives elected on the basis of township as well as population and Hluttaw representatives being the Defence Services Personnel nominated by the Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services;
(b) in accord with the provisions of Section 141, the Amyotha Hluttaw formed with Hluttaw representatives elected in equal numbers from Regions and States and Hluttaw representatives being the Defence Services Personnel nominated by the Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services. (Sec. 74) - Burmeseပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်တွင် အောက်ပါလွှတ်တော်နှစ်ရပ်ပါဝင်သည် -
(က) ပုဒ်မ-၁၀၉ ပါ ပြဌာန်းချက်များနှင့်အညီ မြို့နယ်ကို အခြေခံ၍လည်းကောင်း၊ လူဦးရေကို အခြေခံ၍လည်းကောင်း ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်သည့် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ် နှင့် တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်က အမည်စာရင်းတင်သွင်းသော တပ်မတော်သား လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များဖြင့် ဖွဲ့စည်းသည့် ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်၊
(ခ) ပုဒ်မ-၁၄၁ ပါ ပြဌာန်းချက်များနှင့်အညီ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများနှင့် ပြည်နယ်များမှ ဦးရေတူညီစွာ ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်သည့် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များနှင့် တပ်မတော် ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်က အမည်စာရင်းတင်သွင်းသော တပ်မတော်သား လွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များဖြင့် ဖွဲ့စည်းသည့် အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၇၄)
Legislature
- English1) Parliament shall consist of 25 Members who shall be elected by the People by universal, equal, secret and direct suffrage according to the system of proportional representation.
... (Art. 46) - German1) Der Landtag besteht aus 25 Abgeordneten, die vom Volke im Wege des allgemeinen, gleichen, geheimen und direkten Stimmrechtes nach dem Verhältniswahlsystem gewählt werden.
... (Art. 46)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Parliament exercises the Legislative Power of the State. It is composed [integrado] of two Chambers: the Chamber of the Deputies and the Senate. … (Art. 55)
- SpanishEl Parlamento ejerce el Poder Legislativo del Estado. Está integrado por dos cámaras: la Cámara de los Diputados y el Senado. … (Art. 55)
- FrenchLe Parlement exerce le pouvoir législatif de l'État. Il est composé de deux chambres, la Chambre des députés et le Sénat. … (Art. 55)