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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།
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Legislature
- EnglishThere shall be a Parliament of Grenada which shall consist of Her Majesty, a Senate and a House of Representatives. (Sec. 23)
Legislature
- English
The candidature for deputation to the Assembly of the Representatives of the People is a recognized right of any elector [masculine] or elector [feminine], born of a Tunisian father or Tunisian mother and being already twenty-three years of age on the day of the presentation of their candidature, provided that they are not made the object of whatever measure of prohibition specified by the electoral law. (Art. 58)
- Arabic
الترشّح لعضويّة مجلس نوّاب الشّعب حقّ لكلّ ناخب أو ناخبة وُلد لأب تونسيّ أو لأمّ تونسيّة وبلغ من العمر ثلاثا وعشرين سنة كاملة يوم تقديم ترشّحه، شرط ألاّ يكون مشمولا بأيّ صورة من صور الحرمان التي يضبطها القانون الانتخابيّ. (الفصل 58)
- French
La candidature à la députation à l’Assemblée des représentants du peuple est un droit reconnu à tout électeur ou électrice, né(e) de père tunisien ou de mère tunisienne et âgé(e) de vingt-trois ans révolus le jour de la présentation de sa candidature, à condition de ne pas faire l’objet d’une quelconque mesure d’interdiction prévue par la loi électorale. (Art. 58)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Parliament shall consist of the Members of the Parliament elected directly on the basis of the general and equal electoral right and by secret ballot.
The Parliament shall have 81 Members. (Art. 83) - MontenegrinSkupštinu čine poslanici koji se biraju neposredno, na osnovu opšteg i jednakog biračkog prava i tajnim glasanjem.
Skupština ima 81 poslanika. (Član 83)
Legislature
- English
(1) Every qualified voter who has attained the age of 21 years is qualified to be a candidate for election as a member of the Nitijela.
(2) Any person who is qualified to be a candidate under paragraph (1) of this Section shall have the right to be a candidate in any electoral district in which he is entitled to vote, or unless otherwise provided by Act, in any other electoral district:
Provided that no person may, at any election, be a candidate in more than one electoral district. (Art. IV, Sec. 4)
Legislature
- EnglishTo be a Representative it is necessary to be a natural citizen in full exercise of civil rights, or a legal citizen who has exercised his civil rights for five years, and in both cases, to have attained twenty-five years of age. (Art. 90)
- SpanishPara ser Representante se necesita ciudadanía natural en ejercicio, o legal con cinco años de ejercicio, y, en ambos casos, veinticinco años cumplidos de edad. (Art . 90)
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
- EnglishThere shall be in and for Belize a Legislature which shall consist of a National Assembly comprising two Houses, that is to say, a House of Representatives and a Senate. (Sec. 55)
Legislature
- English
The Senate assures the representation of the territorial collectivities and of the Ivoirians established outside the Côte d'Ivoire.
The Senators are elected, by two-thirds, by indirect universal suffrage. One third of the Senators are designated by the President of the Republic from among the Ivoirians recognized for their proven [avérées] expertise and competence in the political, administrative, economic, scientific, cultural, sports, professional and social domains.
… (Art. 87) - French
Le Sénat assure la représentation des collectivités territoriales et des Ivoiriens établis hors de Côte d’Ivoire.
Les sénateurs sont élus, pour deux tiers, au suffrage universel indirect. Un tiers des sénateurs est désigné par le Président de la République parmi les Ivoiriens reconnus pour leur expertise et leur compétence avérées dans les domaines politique, administratif, économique, scientifique, culturel, sportif, professionnel et social.
… (Art. 87)
Legislature
- English
Majlis Al-Shura shall consist of elected members representing all the wilayat of the Sultanate, chosen through direct secret ballot in the manner prescribed by the law. (Art. 70)
- Arabic
يتكون مجلس الشورى من أعضاء منتخبين يمثلون جميع ولايات السلطنة، يتم اختيارهم بالاقتراع السري المباشر، وذلك على النحو الذي يبينه القانون. (المادّة ٧٠)