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Legislature
- English(1) The National Assembly consists of—
(a) two hundred and ninety members, each elected by the registered voters of single member constituencies;
(b) forty-seven women, each elected by the registered voters of the counties, each county constituting a single member constituency;
(c) twelve members nominated by parliamentary political parties according to their proportion of members of the National Assembly in accordance with Article 90, to represent special interests including the youth, persons with disabilities and workers; and
(d) the Speaker, who is an ex officio member.
(2) Nothing in this Article shall be construed as excluding any person from contesting an election under clause (1) (a). (Art. 97) - Swahili(1) Bunge la Kitaifa linaundwa na—
(a) wabunge mia mbili na tisini, kila mmoja aliyechaguliwa na wapiga kura waliosajiliwa kutoka katika eneo bunge moja;
(b) wanawake arobaini na saba, kila mmoja aliyechaguliwa na wapiga kura waliosajiliwa wa kaunti, kila kaunti inaunda eneo bunge moja;
(c) wajumbe kumi na wawili walioteuliwa na vyama vya siasa vyenye uwakilishi bungeni kulingana na idadi yao ya wajumbe wa Bunge la Kitaifa kwa mujibu wa Kifungu cha 90, ili kuwakilisha masilahi maalumu ikiwa ni pamoja na vijana, watu wenye ulemavu na wafanyikazi; na
(d) Spika, ambaye ni mjumbe kwa nafasi yake.
(2) Hakuna chochote katika Kifungu hiki kitachukuliwa kama kumwondoa mtu yeyote kugombea kwenye uchaguzi chini ya ibara ya (1) (a). (Kifungu cha 97)
Legislature
- EnglishSubject to the provisions of this Constitution, the National Assembly may make laws for the peace, order and good government of Belize. (Sec. 68)
Legislature
- EnglishThe legislative power shall be vested in the Congress of the Philippines which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives, except to the extent reserved to the people by the provision on initiative and referendum. (Art. VI, Sec. 1)
- FilipinoDapat masalalay sa isang Kongreso ng Pilipinas ang kapangyarihang Tagapagbatas, na dapat binubuo ng isang Senado at isang Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan, maliban sa lawak na inilaan sa mga taongbayan ng tadhana tungkol sa pagpapatiuna at reperendum. (Art. VI, Seksyon 1)
Legislature
- EnglishElections of the National Assembly and community councils, as well as referenda shall be carried out on the basis of universal, equal, free, and direct suffrage, by secret vote. (Art. 7)
- ArmenianԱզգային ժողովի և համայնքների ավագանիների ընտրությունները, ինչպես նաև հանրաքվեներն անցկացվում են ընդհանուր, հավասար, ազատ և ուղղակի ընտրական իրավունքի հիման վրա՝ գաղտնի քվեարկությամբ: (Հոդված 7)
Legislature
- EnglishEvery New Zealand citizen who is of or over the age of 18 years—
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(b) is qualified for membership of the House of Representatives. (Bill of Rights Act 1990, Sec. 12)
Legislature
- English
To be eligible for membership of the States General, a person must be a Dutch national, must have attained the age of eighteen years and must not have been disqualified from voting. (Art. 56)
- Dutch
Om lid van de Staten-Generaal te kunnen zijn is vereist dat men Nederlander is, de leeftijd van achttien jaar heeft bereikt en niet is uitgesloten van het kiesrecht. (Art. 56)
Legislature
- English
The Senate represents the Decentralized Territorial Collectivities and the economic and social organizations. It includes, for two-thirds, members elected in equal number for each Province, and for one-third, members appointed by the President of the Republic, in part, by virtue of their particular competence. (Art. 81)3
- French
Le Sénat représente les Collectivités Territoriales Décentralisées et les organisations économiques et sociales. Il comprend, pour deux tiers, des membres élus en nombre égal pour chaque Province, et pour un tiers, des membres nommés par le Président de la République, pour partie, sur présentation des groupements les plus représentatifs issus des forces économiques sociales et culturelles et pour partie en raison de leur compétence particulière. (Art. 81)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Chamber of Deputies is composed of members elected in direct voting by electoral districts. The respective constitutional organic law will determine the number of deputies, the electoral districts and the form of their election.
… (Art. 47) - SpanishLa Cámara de Diputados está integrada por miembros elegidos en votación directa por distritos electorales. La ley orgánica constitucional respectiva determinará el número de diputados, los distritos electorales y la forma de su elección.
… (Art. 47)
Legislature
- English(1) The Legislature may, in order to ensure the representation in Parliament of Members from the Malay, Indian and other minority communities, by law make provision for —
(a) any constituency to be declared by the President, having regard to the number of electors in that constituency, as a group representation constituency to enable any election in that constituency to be held on a basis of a group of not less than 3 but not more than 6 candidates; and
(b) the qualifications, in addition to those in Article 44, of persons who may be eligible for any election in group representation constituencies, including the requirements referred to in clause (2).
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(3) No provision of any law made pursuant to this Article shall be invalid on the ground of inconsistency with Article 12 or be considered to be a differentiating measure under Article 78.
(4) In this Article —
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“person belonging to the Malay community” means any person, whether of the Malay race or otherwise, who considers himself to be a member of the Malay community and who is generally accepted as a member of the Malay community by that community;
“person belonging to the Indian or other minority communities” means any person of Indian origin who considers himself to be a member of the Indian community and who is generally accepted as a member of the Indian community by that community, or any person who belongs to any minority community other than the Malay or Indian community. (Art. 39A)
Legislature
- English
1. The National Council shall consist of twenty-five members comprising:
(a) One member elected by the voters in each of the twenty Dzongkhags; and
(b) Five eminent persons nominated by the Druk Gyalpo.
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3. A candidate to or a member of the National Council shall not belong to any political party.
… (Art. 11) - Dzongkha
༡) རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ནང་ འཐུས་མི་ཉེར་ལྔ་ཡོད་མིའི་གྲངས་ཚུ་ཚུད་དགོཔ་འདི་ཡང་།
ཀ༽ རྫོང་ཁག་ཉི་ཤུ་རེ་རེ་བཞིན་གྱི་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་སྐྱུར་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ བཙག་འཐུ་གྲུབ་པའི་ འཐུས་མི་རེ་དང་།
ཁ༽ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་གདམ་ཁ་གྲུབ་པའི་ཁྱད་ལྡན་གྱི་མི་ངོ་ལྔ།
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༣) རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་དོན་ལུ་འདེམས་ངོ་ ཡང་ན་ དེའི་འཐུས་མི་ཅིག་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ གང་རུང་ཅིག་གི་ ཁོངས་སུ་གཏོགས་ནི་ མེད།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༡༽