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Legislature
Grenada
- EnglishThere shall be a Parliament of Grenada which shall consist of Her Majesty, a Senate and a House of Representatives. (Sec. 23)
Legislature
Denmark
- English(1) The Members of the Folketing shall be elected by general and direct ballot.
(2) Rules for the exercise of the suffrage shall be laid down by the Parliamentary Election Act of Denmark, which, to secure equal representation of the various opinions of the electorate, shall prescribe the manner of election and decide whether proportional representation shall be adopted with or without elections in single-member constituencies.
… (Sec. 31) - DanishStk. 1. Folketingets medlemmer vælges ved almindelige, direkte og hemmelige valg.
Stk. 2. De nærmere regler for valgrettens udøvelse gives ved valgloven, der til sikring af en ligelig repræsentation af de forskellige anskuelser blandt vælgerne fastsætter valgmåden, herunder hvorvidt forholdstalsvalgmåden skal føres igennem i eller uden forbindelse med valg i enkeltmandskredse.
… (§ 31)
Legislature
Cameroon
- English(1) The National Assembly shall comprise 180 (one hundred and eighty) members elected by direct and secret universal suffrage for a five-year term of office.
... (Art. 15) - French(1) L’Assemblée Nationale est composée de cent quatre - vingt (180) députés élus au suffrage universel direct et secret pour un mandat de cinq (5) ans.
... (Art. 15)
Legislature
Tanzania, United Republic of
- English(1) Subject to the other provisions of this Article, there shall be the following categories of Members of Parliament, that is to say:-
(a) members elected to represent constituencies;
(b) women members being not less than thirty percentum of all the members mentioned in paragraphs (a), (c), (d), (e) and (f) with qualifications mentioned in Article 67 elected by the political parties in accordance with Article 78, on the basis of proportion of votes;
(c) five members elected by the House of Representatives from among its members;
(d) the Attorney General;
(e) not more than ten members appointed by the President from amongst persons with qualifications specified under paragraphs (a) and (c) of subarticle (1) of Article 67 and, at least five members amongst them shall be women; and
(f) the Speaker, if he is not elected from amongst the members.
… (Art. 66)
Legislature
Kyrgyzstan
- 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
Haiti
- EnglishTo be a member of the Chamber of Deputies, one must:
1. be Haitian of origin, never to have renounced his nationality and not holding any other nationality at the moment of his inscription;
2. be twenty-five (25) years of age;
3. enjoy ones civil and political rights and to never have been condemned to a afflictive and infamous penalty for a crime of common law;
4. have resided at least two (2) consecutive years preceding the date of the elections in the electoral circumscription to be represented;
5. be the owner of real assets in the circumscription or to exercise a profession or an industry there.
6. have received discharge, the case arising, from being a manager of public funds. (Art. 91) - FrenchPour être membre de la Chambre des Députés, il faut:
1. être haïtien d'origine, n'avoir jamais renoncé à sa nationalité et ne détenir aucune autre nationalité au moment de son inscription;
2. être âgé de vingt-cinq (25) ans accomplis;
3. jouir de ses droits civils et politiques et n'avoir jamais été condamné à une peine afflictive et infamante pour un crime de droit commun;
4. avoir résidé au moins deux (2) années consécutives précédant la date des élections dans la circonscription électorale à représenter;
5. être propriétaire d'un immeuble dans la circonscription ou y exercer une profession ou une industrie;
6. avoir reçu décharge, le cas échéant, comme gestionnaire de fonds publics. (Art. 91)
Legislature
Hungary
- 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
Congo
- EnglishThe candidates to the senatorial elections must:
• be of Congolese nationality;
• be aged forty-five (45) years at least;
• reside on the national territory at the moment of the presentation of the candidatures;
• enjoy all their civil and political rights;
• not have been condemned for voluntary crimes or misdemeanors. (Art. 137) - FrenchLes candidats aux élections sénatoriales doivent:
- être de nationalité congolaise;
- être âgés de quarante-cinq (45) ans au moins;
- résider sur le territoire national au moment de la présentation des candidatures;
- jouir de tous leurs droits civils et politiques;
- ne pas avoir été condamnés pour crimes ou délits volontaires. (Art. 137)
Legislature
Zambia
- English1. There is established the Parliament of Zambia which consists of the President and the National Assembly.
2. The legislative authority of the Republic is vested in and exercised by Parliament.
3. A person or body, other than Parliament, shall not have power to enact legislation, except as conferred by this Constitution.
... (Art. 62)
Legislature
Myanmar
- 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)