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Legislature
- EnglishThe candidates to the legislative elections may be presented by the political parties or present themselves as [en qualité de] independents as [tel que] defined by Article 99 of this Constitution. (Art. 171)
- KirundiAbitoza kuba abashingamateka batangwa n’imigambwe canke bakitoza kugatwe kabo nkuko bitegekanijwe n’ingingo ya 99 y’iri bwirizwa shingiro. (Ingingo ya 171)
- FrenchLes candidats aux élections législatives peuvent être présentés par les partis politiques ou se présenter en qualité d’indépendants tel que défini par l’article 99 de la présente Constitution. (Art. 171)
Legislature
- English1. The National Legislature represents the will of the people of South Sudan and shall foster unity and nationhood, exercise legislative functions, oversee the Executive, and promote the decentralized system of government.
2. The legislative competences of the National Government shall vest in the National Legislature in respect of all matters assigned to it in Schedules A, C and D read together with Schedule E herein.
... (Art. 55)
Legislature
- English1. The members of the National Assembly shall be elected directly by the inhabitants having Suriname nationality and having reached the age of eighteen years.
… (Art. 57) - Dutch1. De leden van De Nationale Assemblée worden rechtstreeks gekozen door de ingezetenen die de Surinaamse nationaliteit bezitten en de leeftijd van achttien jaren hebben bereikt.
… (Art. 57)
Legislature
- EnglishA member of the National Assembly must:
a. be originally of Kuwaiti nationality in accordance with the Law;
b. fulfill the voter's qualifications in accordance with the Electoral Law;
c. have attained at least the age of thirty Gregorian calendar years on election day; and
d. have a sound reading and writing knowledge of Arabic. (Art. 82) - Arabicيشترط في عضو مجلس الأمة:
أ.أن يكون كويتي الجنسية بصفة أصلية وفقا للقانون
ب.أن تتوافر فيه شروط الناخب وفقا لقانون الانتخاب
ج.ألا يقل سنه يوم الانتخاب عن ثلاثين سنة ميلادية
د.أن يجيد قراءة اللغة العربية وكتابته (المادّة 82)
Legislature
- English(1) Every adult Hungarian citizen shall have the right to vote and to be voted for in elections of Members of the National Assembly, of local government representatives and mayors and of Members of the European Parliament.
… (Freedom and Responsibility, Art. XXIII) - Hungarian(1) Minden nagykorú magyar állampolgárnak joga van ahhoz, hogy az országgyűlési képviselők, a helyi önkormányzati képviselők és polgármesterek, valamint az európai parlamenti képviselők választásán választó és választható legyen.
… (Szabadság és Felelősség, XXIII. cikk)
Legislature
- EnglishChadians of the two sexes fulfilling the conditions established by the law[,] may be candidates to the National Assembly. (Art. 115)
- Arabicيستطيع التشاديون من الجنسين الذين يفون بالشروط المحددة في القانون أن يكونوا مرشحين للمجلس الوطني. (المادة 115)
- FrenchPeuvent être candidats à l'Assemblée Nationale, les Tchadiens des deux sexes remplissant les conditions fixées par la Loi. (Art. 115)
Legislature
- English
The people, holders of the sovereignty, delegate the legislative function to a first representative Chamber called the Assembly of the Representatives of the People, and to a second representative Chamber called the Council of Regions and Districts. (Art. 56)
- Arabic
يفوّض الشّعب، صاحب السّيادة، الوظيفة التّشريعيّة لمجلس نيابيّ أوّل يسمّى مجلس نوّاب الشّعب ولمجلس نيابيّ ثان يسمّى المجلس الوطنيّ للجهات والأقاليم. (الفصل 56)
- French
Le peuple, détenteur de la souveraineté, délègue la fonction législative à une première chambre représentative dénommée l’Assemblée des représentants du peuple, et à une seconde chambre représentative dénommée le Conseil des régions et des districts. (Art. 56)
Legislature
- EnglishSubject to the provisions of Article 48 of this Constitution a person shall be qualified to be elected as a member of the House of Assembly if, and shall not be qualified to be so elected unless, he-
a. is a citizen of The Bahamas of the age of twenty-one years or upwards; and
b. has ordinarily resided in The Bahamas for a period of not less than one year immediately before the date of his nomination for election. (Art. 47)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Chamber of Representatives is composed of ninety-nine members elected directly by the people, under a system of proportional representation which takes into account the votes cast in favor of each lema in all the country. … (Art. 88)
- SpanishLa Cámara de Representantes se compondrá de noventa y nueve miembros elegidos directamente por el pueblo, con arreglo a un sistema de representación proporcional en el que se tomen en cuenta los votos emitidos a favor de cada lema en todo el país. … (Art. 88)
Legislature
- English(a) The legislative power of the Union is shared among the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, Region Hluttaws and State Hluttaws. Legislative power stipulated by this Constitution shall be shared to the Self-Administered Areas.
(b) The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw consisting of two Hluttaws, one Hluttaw elected on the basis of township as well as population, and the other on an equal number of representatives elected from Regions and States. (Sec. 12) - Burmese(က) နိုင်ငံတော်၏ ဥပဒေပြုရေးအာဏာကို ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်၊ တိုင်းဒေသ ကြီးလွှတ်တော် နှင့် ပြည်နယ်လွှတ်တော်များအား ခွဲဝေအပ်နှင်းသည်။ ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ စီရင် စုများအား ဤဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေက သတ်မှတ်သော ဥပဒေပြုရေးအာဏာကို ခွဲဝေအပ်နှင်းသည်၊
(ခ) ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်တွင် မြို့နယ်ကိုအခြေခံ၍လည်းကောင်း၊ လူဦးရေကို အခြေခံ၍လည်းကောင်း၊ ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်သည့် လွှတ်တော်တစ်ရပ်၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများ နှင့် ပြည်နယ်များမှ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်ဦးရေတူညီစွာ ရွေးကောက်တင် မြှောက်သည့် လွှတ်တော်တစ်ရပ်ဟူ၍ လွှတ်တော်နှစ်ရပ် ပါရှိသည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၁၂)