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Legislature
Paraguay
- EnglishThe Chamber of Deputies is the Chamber of departmental representation. It will be composed of eighty titular [members] at a minimum, and of an equal number of substitutes, elected directly by the People in departmental electoral colleges [colegios]. …
The natural Paraguayan nationality and to be already twenty-five years old are required to be elected Deputy[,] titular or substitute[,]. (Art. 221) - SpanishLa Cámara de Diputados es la Cámara de la representación departamental. Se compondrá de ochenta miembros titulares como mínimo, y de igual número de suplentes, elegidos directamente por el pueblo en colegios electorales departamentales. …
Para ser electo diputado titular o suplente se requiere la nacionalidad paraguaya natural y haber cumplido veinticinco años. (Art. 221)
Legislature
Dominica
- EnglishThere shall be a Parliament of Dominica which shall consist of the President and a House of Assembly. (Sec. 29)
Legislature
Uruguay
- 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
Haiti
- EnglishThe Chamber of Deputies is a body composed of members elected by direct suffrage by the citizens and is responsible for exercising, on their behalf and in concert with the Senate, the functions of the legislative power. (Art. 89)
- FrenchLa Chambre des députés est un corps composé de membres élus au suffrage direct par les citoyens et chargé d'exercer au nom de ceux-ci et de concert avec le Sénat les attributions du Pouvoir législatif. (Art. 89)