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Legislature
- EnglishA candidate in an election of a Member of the House of Representatives on a constituency basis, must be a person nominated by a political party of which he or she is a member, and shall not stand for election in more than one constituency. … (Sec. 87)
- Thaiผู้สมัครรับเลือกตั้งสมาชิกสภาผู้แทนราษฎรแบบแบ่งเขตเลือกตั้ง จะต้องเป็นผู้ซึ่งพรรคการเมืองที่ตนเป็นสมาชิกส่งสมัครรับเลือกตั้ง และจะสมัครรับเลือกตั้งเกินหนึ่งเขตมิได้ … (มาตรา ๘๗)
Legislature
- English
The supreme state representative body shall be the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan that exercises legislative power.
The Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan consists of two chambers — the Legislative Chamber (the lower chamber) and the Senate (the upper chamber).
… (Art. 91) - Uzbek
O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Oliy Majlisi oliy davlat vakillik organi bo‘lib, qonun chiqaruvchi hokimiyatni amalga oshiradi.
O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy Majlisi ikki palatadan — Qonunchilik palatasi (quyi palata) va Senatdan (yuqori palata) iborat.
… (91-modda)
Legislature
- English(1) The Council of States shall consist of—
(a) twelve members to be nominated by the President in accordance with the provisions of clause (3); and
(b) not more than two hundred and thirty-eight representatives of the States and of the Union territories.
(2) The allocation of seats in the Council of States to be filled by representatives of the States and of the Union territories shall be in accordance with the provisions in that behalf contained in the Fourth Schedule.
(3) The members to be nominated by the President under sub-clause (a)of clause (1) shall consist of persons having special knowledge or practical experience in respect of such matters as the following, namely:—
Literature, science, art and social service.
(4) The representatives of each State in the Council of States shall be elected by the elected members of the Legislative Assembly of the State in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.
(5) The representatives of the Union territories in the Council of States shall be chosen in such manner as Parliament may by law prescribe. (Art. 80) - Hindi(1) राज्य सभा—
(क) राष्ट्रपति द्वारा खंड (3) के उपबंधों के अनुसार नाम-निर्देशित किए जाने वाले बारह सदस्यों; और
(ख) राज्यों के और संघ राज्यक्षेत्रों के दो सौ अड़तीस से अनधिक प्रतिनिधियों से मिल कर बनेगी।
(2) राज्य सभा में राज्यों के और संघ राज्यक्षेत्रों के प्रतिनिधियों द्वारा भरे जाने वाले स्थानों का आबंटन चौथी अनुसूची में इस निमित्त अंतर्विष्ट उपबंधों के अनुसार होगा।
(3) राष्ट्रपति द्वारा खंड (1) के उपखंड (क) के अधीन नाम-निर्देशित किए जाने वाले सदस्य ऐसे व्यक्ति होंगे जिन्हें निम्नलिखित विषयों के संबंध में विशेष ज्ञान या व्यावहारिक अनुभव है, अर्थात:—
साहित्य, विज्ञान, कला और समाज सेवा।
(4) राज्य सभा में प्रत्येक राज्य के प्रतिनिधियों का निर्वाचन उस राज्य की विधान सभा के निर्वाचित सदस्यों द्वारा आनुपातिक प्रतिनिधित्व पद्धति के अनुसार एकल संक्रमणीय मत द्वारा किया जाएगा।
(5) राज्य सभा में संघ राज्यक्षेत्रों के प्रतिनिधि ऐसी रीति से चुने जाएंगे जो संसद विधि द्वारा विहित करे।(अनुच्छेद 80)
Legislature
- English...
2. Anyone who has attained the age of 25, for the preceding four years has been a citizen of only the Republic of Armenia, has permanently resided in the Republic of Armenia for the preceding four years, has voting right, and has a command of the Armenian language may be elected as a member of the National Assembly.
... (Art. 48) - Armenian…
2. Ազգային ժողովի պատգամավոր կարող է ընտրվել քսանհինգ տարին լրացած, վերջին չորս տարում միայն Հայաստանի Հանրապետության քաղաքացի հանդիսացող, վերջին չորս տարում Հայաստանի Հանրապետությունում մշտապես բնակվող, ընտրական իրավունք ունեցող և հայերենին տիրապետող յուրաքանչյուր ոք:
… (Հոդված 48)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Diet shall be the highest organ of state power, and shall be the sole law-making organ of the State. (Art. 41)
- Japanese国会は、国権の最高機関であつて、国の唯一の立法機関である。(第41条)
Legislature
- English
1. The National Assembly shall have a maximum of fifty-five members, elected from each Dzongkhag in proportion to its population, provided that no Dzongkhag shall have less than two members or more than seven members, for which purpose Parliament shall, by law, provide for each Dzongkhag to be divided into constituencies through appropriate delimitation, and for the voters in each constituency directly electing one member to the National Assembly.
... (Art. 12) - Dzongkha
༡) འབྲུག་གི་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་འདི་ནང་ མི་རློབས་ཀྱི་ཆ་ཚད་དང་བསྟུན་རྫོང་ཁག་ཚུ་ལས་ བཙག་འཐུ་ གྲུབ་པའི་ འཐུས་མིའི་གྲངས་བསྡོམས་མཐོ་ཤོས་ལྔ་བཅུ་ང་ལྔ་འོང་དགོཔ་ཨིན་ དེ་ཡང་ རྫོང་ཁག་གཅིག་ལུ་ འཐུས་མི་ གཉིས་ལས་ མ་ཉུངམ་ཅིག་དང་ བདུན་ལས་མ་ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་ ཡོད་དགོ་པའི་ཁར་ དེའི་དོན་ལུ་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ འོས་འཚམས་ལྡན་པའི་ བཅད་མཚམས་བཟོ་སྟེ་ རྫོང་ཁག་རེ་རེ་བཞིན་དུ་འདེམས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ལུ་དཔྱ་བགོ་རྐྱབ་ཐངས་དང་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ འདེམས་ཁོངས་རེའི་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་སྐྱུར་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ འཐུས་མི་རེ་ཐད་ཀར་དུ་ བཙག་འཐུ་འབད་ནིའི་སྐོར་ལས་ ཁྲིམས་ཐོག་བཀོད་དགོ།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༢༽
Legislature
- EnglishThe Supreme People’s Assembly is composed of deputies elected on the principle of universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot. (Art. 89)
- Korean최고인민회의는 일반적, 평등적, 직접적선거원칙에 의하여 비밀투표로 선거된 대의원들로 구성한다. (제89조)
Legislature
- EnglishThe legislative power of the Republic shall be exercised by the House of Representatives in all matters except those expressly reserved to the Communal Chambers under this Constitution. (Art. 61)
- GreekΗ νομοθετική εξουσία της Δημοκρατίας ασκείται υπό της Βουλής των Αντιπροσώπων εν παντί θέματι, εξαιρέσει των θεμάτων εκείνων, άτινα ρητώς υπάγονται κατά το Σύνταγμα εις τας Κοινοτικάς Συνελεύσεις. (Αρθρον 61)
- TurkishCumhuriyetin yasama gücü, bu Anayasa ile açıkça Cemaat Meclislerine ayrılanlardan başka bütün konularda Temsilciler Meclisi tarafından kullanılır. (Madde 61)
Legislature
- English(a) Each administrative division shall establish separate electoral constituencies in accordance with the principles specified in Article 71 of this Constitution. All members shall be elected from a separate electoral constituency.
(b) The person elected from amongst those standing for election in each separate electoral constituency shall be the person receiving the greatest number of votes by secret ballot.
… (Art. 72) - Dhivehi(ހ) މިޤާނޫނުއަސާސީގެ 71 ވަނަ މާއްދާ ގައި ބަޔާންކޮށްފައިވާ އުސޫލާ ހިލާފުނުވާނޭހެން، ކޮންމެ އިދާރީ ދާއިރާއަކުން ވަކި އިންތިހާބީ ދާއިރާތަކެއް ކަނޑައަޅާންވާނެއެވެ. މިއިން ކޮންމެ އިންތިހާބީ ދާއިރާއަކުން އިންތިހާބްކުރާނީ އެއް މެންބަރެވެ.
(ށ) ކޮންމެ އިންތިހާބީ ދާއިރާއެއްގައި ވާދާކުރާ މީހުންގެ ތެރެއިން އިންތިޚާބުވާނީ، އެދާއިރާއެއްގައި ވޯޓުދޭ ރައްޔިތުންގެ ސިއްރުވޯޓަކުން އެންމެ ގިނަ ވޯޓު ލިބޭ މީހެކެވެ.
... (ޤާނޫނުއަސާސީގެ 72 ވަނަ މާއްދާ)
Legislature
- English
Majlis Oman consists of the following:
– Majlis Al-Dawla
– Majlis Al-Shura (Art. 68) - Arabic
يتكون مجلس عمان من الآتي:
– مجلس الدولة.
– مجلس الشورى. (المادّة ٦٨)