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Legislature
- 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
- EnglishThe Deputies hold this character by the Nation and will be elected by provinces.
The Assembly is composed of fifty-seven Deputies. … (Art. 106) - SpanishLos diputados tienen ese carácter por la Nación y serán elegidos por provincias.
La Asamblea se compone de cincuenta y siete Diputados. … (Art. 106)
Legislature
- EnglishThe modalities of the organization and the functioning of the appointment and the elections of the Senators as well as the determination of the voters, the electoral colleges and the electoral constituencies must be determined by a law. (Art. 101)
- Khmerការរៀបចំបែបបទ និងការប្រព្រឹត្តទៅនៃការចាត់តាំង និងការបោះឆ្នោតជ្រើសតាំងសមាជិកព្រឹទ្ធសភា ព្រមទាំងការកំណត់អំពីអ្នកបោះឆ្នោត អង្គបោះឆ្នោត និងមណ្ឌលបោះឆ្នោត ត្រូវចែងក្នុងច្បាប់មួយ។ (មាត្រា ១០១)
Legislature
- English
(1) If at a general election which is contested by two or more political parties and in which only candidates of two parties are elected or in the eventuality of an election result as provided for in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of the proviso to sub-article (1) of article 52 and in the event that the number of Members of Parliament of the under-represented sex, elected by virtue of article 52, inclusive of those members elected at a casual election in terms of the relevant regulations, is less than forty per cent (40%) of all the Members of Parliament, then the number of Members of Parliament shall increase by not more than twelve (12) Members of the under-represented sex:
Provided that the number of Members of Parliament of the under-represented sex elected by virtue of article 52 added to the members of the under-represented sex elected by virtue of this article shall not exceed forty per cent (40%) of the total number of elected Members of Parliament making up the House.
The candidates elected by virtue of this article are to be apportioned equally between the absolute majority party or the relative majority party and the minority party.
... (Art 52A) - Maltese
(1) Jekk f’elezzjoni ġenerali li tkun ikkontestata minn żewġ partiti politiċi jew aktar u li fiha l-kandidati ta’ żewġ partiti biss ikunu eletti jew f’każ ta’ riżultat ta’ elezzjoni kif provdut fis-subparagrafi (i) u (ii) tal-proviso tas-subartikolu (1) tal-artikolu 52 u fil-każ li n-numru ta’ Membri tal-Parlament tas-sess l-inqas rappreżentat, elett bis-saħħa tal-artikolu 52, inkluż dawk il-membri eletti f’elezzjoni każwali skont ir-regolamenti rilevanti, huwa inqas minn erbgħin fil-mija (40%) tal-Membri kollha tal-Parlament, allura n-numru ta’ Membri tal Parlament għandu jiżdied b’mhux aktar minn tnax (12)-il Membru tas-sess l-inqas rappreżentat:
Iżda n-numru ta’ Membri Parlamentari tas-sess l-inqas rappreżentat elett bis-saħħa tal-artikolu 52 miżjud mal-membri tas-sess l-inqas rappreżentat elett bis-saħħa ta’ dan l-artikolu ma għandux jaqbeż l-erbgħin fil-mija (40%) tan-numru totali ta’ Membri eletti tal-Parlament li jifforma l-Kamra.
Il-kandidati eletti bis-saħħa ta’ dan l-artikolu għandhom ikunu mqassma ugwalment bejn il-partit b’maġġoranza assoluta jew il partit b’maġġoranza relattiva u l-partit b’minoranza.
... (Art. 52A)
Legislature
- EnglishThere shall be a National Assembly for the Federation which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives. (Sec. 47)
Legislature
- 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)
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
- EnglishIn order to be a male or female senator one is required to be a male or female Dominican in full exercise of civil and political rights, to have reached twenty-five years of age, to be a native of the territory that elects him or to have resided in it for at least five consecutive years.
… (Art. 79) - SpanishPara ser senadora o senador se requiere ser dominicana o dominicano en pleno ejercicio de los derechos civiles y políticos, haber cumplido veinticinco años de edad, ser nativo de la demarcación territorial que lo elija o haber residido en ella por lo menos cinco años consecutivos.
… (Art. 79)
Legislature
- English
The law establishes the number of members of the National Assembly, the conditions of eligibility, the minimum of votes to obtain by the lists of candidatures at national level [plan] to be eligible to the attribution of seats, the regime of incompatibilities and the conditions within which vacant seats are provided for.
... (Art. 81) - French
La loi fixe le nombre des membres de l’Assemblée nationale, les conditions d’éligibilité, le minimum de suffrages à recueillir par les listes de candidatures au plan national pour être éligibles à l’attribution des sièges, le régime des incompatibilités et les conditions dans lesquelles il est pourvu aux sièges vacants.
... (Art. 81)
Legislature
- English(1) Parliament consists of –
(a) the National Assembly; and
(b) the National Council of Provinces.
(2) The National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces participate in the legislative process in the manner set out in the Constitution.
… (Sec. 42)