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Legislature
- English
(1) The members are elected by universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot according to the principles of proportionate representation.
(2) Any citizen who has the right to vote, has attained 21 years of age and has permanent residency in the Slovak Republic is eligible to be elected to the National Council of the Slovak Republic.
(3) The territory of the Slovak Republic constitutes one electoral district for elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic.
(4) Details relating to the election of the representatives shall be fixed by law. (Art. 74) - Slovak
(1) Poslanci sú volení vo všeobecných, rovných, priamych voľbách s tajným hlasovaním.
(2) Za poslanca možno zvoliť občana, ktorý má volebné právo, dosiahol vek 21 rokov a má trvalý pobyt na území Slovenskej republiky.
(3) Územie Slovenskej republiky tvori pre volby do Národnej rady Slovenskej republiky jeden volebný obvod
(4) Podrobnosti o voľbách poslancov ustanoví zákon. (Čl. 74)
Legislature
- English
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5. Election to the National Assembly shall be by two political parties established through a primary round of election in which all registered political parties may participate.
6. A primary round of election shall be held to select the two political parties for the general election on the expiry of the term of the National Assembly or in the event of dissolution under section 12 of this Article.
7. The two political parties obtaining the first and the second highest number of votes in the primary election shall be declared as the two political parties for the purpose of section 5 of this Article to contest in the general election.
... (Art. 15) - Dzongkha
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༥) ཐོ་བཀོད་གྲུབ་པའི་སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ཆ་མཉམ་གྱིས་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ཆོག་པའི་འགོ་ཐོག་ བཙག་འཐུའི་ འདེམས་རིམ་ བརྒྱུད་དེ་ གཞི་བཙུགས་གྲུབ་པའི་སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་གཉིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་བཙག་འཐུའི་དོན་ལུ་ཨིན།
༦) རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་གནས་ཡུན་ཚང་བ་ ཡང་ན་ རྩ་ཚན་འདིའི་དོན་ཚན་༡༢ པའི་ དགོངས་དོན་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ རྩ་གྲོལ་སོང་བ་ཡིན་ཚེ་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་གཉིས་གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ འགོ་ཐོག་བཙག་འཐུ་ཅིག་འབད་དགོ།
༧) འགོ་ཐོག་བཙག་འཐུའི་ནང་ རྒྱན་གྲངས་མཐོ་ཤོས་དང་པ་དང་གཉིས་པ་ཐོབ་མི་སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་གཉིས་པོ་དེ་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་ བཙག་འཐུའི་ནང་འགྲན་སྡུར་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ རྩ་ཚན་འདིའི་ དོན་ཚན་༥ པའི་དགོས་དོན་ལུ་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་གཉིས་ ཨིན་པའི་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་འབད་དགོ།
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Legislature
- EnglishIt corresponds to the Congress to make the laws. Through them, it exercises the following functions:
1. To interpret, reform and derogate the laws.
2. To enact codes in all the branches of legislation and to reform their provisions.
… (Art. 150) - SpanishCorresponde al Congreso hacer las leyes. Por medio de ellas ejerce las siguientes funciones:
1. Interpretar, reformar y derogar las leyes.
2. Expedir códigos en todos los ramos de la legislación y reformar sus disposiciones.
… (Art. 150)
Legislature
- EnglishThe National Assembly exercises the legislative power. … (Art. 55)
- Arabicتمارس الجميعة الوطنية السلطة التشريعية. ... (المادة 55)
- FrenchL'Assemblée nationale détient le Pouvoir législatif. … (Art. 55)
Legislature
- English
The members of the National Assembly are elected for five years by universal direct suffrage.
The regime of the ballots is determined by an organic law.
… (Art. 69) - French
Les membres de l’Assemblée Nationale sont élus pour cinq ans au suffrage universel direct.
Le régime des scrutins est déterminé par une loi organique.
… (Art. 69)
Legislature
- EnglishThe legislative power of Palau shall be vested in the Olbiil Era Kelulau which shall consist of two houses, the House of Delegates and the Senate. (Art. IX, Sec. 1)
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 Chamber of Deputies consists of elected representatives whose number and the manner of the election are determined by the electoral laws in effect.
Until the Chamber of Deputies issues an Electoral Law, outside the sectarian record, representative seats are distributed according to the following rules:
a. Equally between Christians and Moslems.
b. Proportional between the sects of both sides.
c. Proportional among districts.
Exceptionally, and once, representative seats vacant at the date of publishing this Law, and the seats created by the Electoral Law, are filled totally by appointment by a two- thirds majority of the National Détente Government, in implementation of the equality between the Christians and the Moslems, according to the National Détente Document. The Electoral Law determines the details of the application of this Article. (Art. 24) - Arabicيتألّف مجلس النّواب من نواب منتخبين يكون عددهم وكيفيّة انتخابهم وفقا لقوانين الانتخاب المرعية الاجراء.
وإلى أن يضع مجلس النواب قانون انتخاب خارج القيد الطائفي، توزّع المقاعد النّيابية وفقا للقواعد الآتية:
أ- بالتّساوي بين المسيحيين والمسلمين.
ب- نسبيّا بين طوائف كل من الفئتين.
ج- نسبيّا بين المناطق
وبصورة استثنائيّة، ولو لمرّة واحدة، تملأ بالتّعيين دفعة واحدة وبأكثريّة الثّلثين من قبل حكومة الوفاق الوطني، المقاعد النيابيّة الشاغرة بتاريخ نشر هذا القانون والمقاعد التي تستحدث في قانون الانتخاب، تطبيقا للتّساوي بين المسيحيين والمسلمين، وفقا لوثيقة الوفاق الوطني. ويحدّد قانون الانتخاب دقائق تطبيق هذه المادة. (المادّة 24)
Legislature
- English…
The number of Members of the Croatian Parliament and the conditions and procedure for their election thereto shall be regulated by law. (Art. 72) - Croatian…
Zakonom se određuje broj, uvjeti i postupak izbora zastupnika u Hrvatski sabor. (Članak 72)
Legislature
- English(1) Subject to this Constitution, the legislative power of the People is vested in the National Parliament.
… (Sec. 100)