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Legislature
- English
The Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall consist of one hundred fifty deputies elected in accordance with the law.
The Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall be the chamber of territorial representation and consist of members of the Senate (senators).
Members of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall be elected in equal quantity — in four persons — from the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regions and the city of Tashkent by secret ballot at relevant joint sessions of deputies of Zhokarghy Kenes of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, representative bodies of state authority of regions, districts, cities and towns from among these deputies.
Nine members of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall be appointed by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan from among the most authoritative citizens with extensive practical experience and special merits in the sphere of science, art, literature, manufacture and other spheres of state and public activity.
A deputy of the Legislative Сhamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as a member of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, may be a citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan, who has reached on the date of the elections twenty five years of age and permanently residing on the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan not less than five years. Requirements for candidates to be a deputy shall be determined by law.
One and the same person may not be simultaneously a deputy of the Legislative Chamber and a member of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan. (Art. 92)4 - Uzbek
O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy Majlisining Qonunchilik palatasi qonunga muvofiq saylanadigan bir yuz ellik deputatdan iborat.
O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy Majlisining Senati hududiy vakillik palatasi bo‘lib, Senat a’zolaridan (senatorlardan) iborat.
O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy Majlisining Senati a’zolari Qoraqalpog‘iston Respublikasi Jo‘qorg‘i Kengesi, viloyatlar, tumanlar va shaharlar davlat hokimiyati vakillik organlari deputatlarining tegishli qo‘shma majlislarida mazkur deputatlar orasidan yashirin ovoz berish yo‘li bilan Qoraqalpog‘iston Respublikasi, viloyatlar va Toshkent shahridan teng miqdorda — to‘rt kishidan saylanadi. O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy Majlisi Senatining to‘qqiz nafar a’zosi fan, san’at, adabiyot, ishlab chiqarish sohasida hamda davlat va jamiyat faoliyatining boshqa tarmoqlarida katta amaliy tajribaga ega bo‘lgan hamda alohida xizmat ko‘rsatgan eng obro‘li fuqarolar orasidan O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Prezidenti tomonidan tayinlanadi.
Saylov kuni yigirma besh yoshga to‘lgan hamda kamida besh yil O‘zbekiston Respublikasi hududida muqim yashayotgan O‘zbekiston Respublikasi fuqarosi O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy Majlisining Qonunchilik palatasi deputati, shuningdek O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy Majlisining Senati a’zosi bo‘lishi mumkin. Deputatlikka nomzodlarga qo‘yiladigan talablar qonun bilan belgilanadi.
Ayni bir shaxs bir paytning o‘zida O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy Majlisining Qonunchilik palatasi deputati va Senati a’zosi bo‘lishi mumkin emas.
... (92-modda)
Legislature
- EnglishTo be elected Senator [it] is required to be a citizen with the right of suffrage, [to] have completed secondary education or the equivalent and [to] have attained thirty-five years of age [by] the day of the election. (Art. 50)
- SpanishPara ser elegido senador se requiere ser ciudadano con derecho a sufragio, haber cursado la enseñanza media o equivalente y tener cumplidos treinta y cinco años de edad el día de la elección. (Art. 50)
Legislature
- English
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3. A candidate for an elective office under this Constitution shall:
a. Be a Bhutanese citizen;
b. Be registered voter of that constituency;
c. Be a minimum of twenty-five years and maximum of sixty-five years of age at the time of filing the nomination;
d. Not receive money or any assistance from foreign sources, be it governmental, nongovernmental, private organizations or from private parties or individuals; and
e. Fulfil the necessary educational and other qualifications prescribed in the Electoral Laws.
4. A person shall be disqualified as a candidate or a member holding an elective office under this Constitution, if the person:
a. Is married to a person who is not a citizen of Bhutan;
… (Art. 23) - Dzongkha
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༣) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདིའི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ བཙག་འཐུ་ཅན་གྱི་ཡགི་ཚང་དོན་ལུ་ འདེམས་ངོ་གིས་འགྲུབ་དགོཔ་འདི་ཡང་།
ཀ༽ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཨིན་མི་ཅིག་དང་།
ཁ༽ འདེམས་ཁོངས་དེ་ནང་ ཚོགས་རྒྱན་སྐྱུར་མི་སྦེ་ཐོ་བཀོད་གྲུབ་པ།
ག༽ གདམ་ངོའི་ཞུ་ཡིག་བཙུགས་པའི་སྐབས་ དམའ་ཤོས་སྐྱེས་ལོ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་ལྔ་དང་ མཐོ་ཤོས་སྐྱེས་ལོ་ དྲུག་ཅུ་རེ་ལྔ་ལོན་པ།
ང་༽ གཞུང་ ཡང་ན་ གཞུང་མིན་ སྒེར་གྱི་ལས་ཚོགས་ ཡང་ཅིན་སྒེར་སྡེ་དང་ངོ་རྐྱང་ཚུ་ ག་ལས་ ཨིན་རུང་ ཕྱིའི་ འབྱུང་ཁུངས་ལས་དངུལ་རྐྱང་ ཡང་ན་ གྲོགས་རམ་གང་ཡང་མ་ལེན་པ།
ཅ༽ བཙག་འཐུ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཁྲིམས་ནང་ ཆེད་དུ་བཀོད་པའི་དགོས་མཁོའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་དང་ཁྱད་ཚད་གཞན་ཚུ་ཡོདཔ།
༤) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདིའི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་གྱི་འདེམས་ངོ་ཅིག་ ཡང་ན་ བཙག་འཐུ་ཅན་གྱི་ཡིག་ཚང་འཆང་བའི་ འཐུས་མི་ཅིག་ ཁྱད་ཚད་དང་མ་མཐུན་པའི་མི་ངོ་སྦེ་བརྩི་དགོཔ་དེ་ཡང་ གལ་སྲིད་མི་ངོ་འདི།
ཀ༽ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་མིན་མི་ཅིག་དང་གཉེན་དུ་བསྡོམས་པ།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༢༣༽
Legislature
- EnglishRepresentatives of the people shall be chosen by ballot and any person who is qualified to be an elector may nominate as a candidate and be chosen as a representative for the electoral constituency in which he is registered, save that no person may be chosen against whom an order has been made in any court in the Kingdom for the payment of a specific sum of money the whole or any part of which remains outstanding or if ordered to pay by instalments the whole or any part of such instalments remain outstanding on the day on which such person submits his nomination paper to the Returning Officer:
Provided that a person resident outside of Tonga who is qualified to be an elector will qualify as a candidate only if he is present in Tonga for a period of 3 months within the 6 months before the relevant election. (Clause 65) - Tongan‘E fai ‘a e fili ‘o e kau fakafofonga ‘o e kakai ‘aki ‘a e paloti pea ‘ilonga ha taha kuo fakangofua ke fili ‘e ngofua ke fokotu‘u ia koe kanititeiti pea ke fili ia ko e fakafofonga ma‘ae vahenga fili ‘a ia kuo lesisita ki ai, kae kehe kuo pau he ‘ikai fili ha taha ‘a ia kuo fai ki ai ha tu‘utu‘uni ‘i ha Fakamaau‘anga ‘i he Pule‘anga ke totongi ha pa‘anga kuo tuhu‘i pau ‘a ia ko hono kotoa pe konga ‘o ia ‘oku te‘eki ke totongi pe kuo tu‘utu‘uni ke totongi fakakongokonga ‘a e kotoa pe ha konga ‘o e pa‘anga ‘oku te‘eki ke totongi fakakongokonga ko ia ‘i he ‘aho ‘oku ‘oatu ai ‘e he toko taha ko ia ‘ene pepa fili ki he ‘Ofisa Faifili:
Ka kuo pau ko ha taha ‘oku ‘ikai nofo ‘i Tonga ‘a ia ‘oku ngofua ke hoko ko e taha fili ‘e ‘i ai pe ‘ene mafai ke hoko ko ha kanititeiti kapau ‘oku ne ‘i Tonga ‘i ha vaha‘a taimi ko e mahina ‘e tolu ‘i loto ‘i he mahina ‘e ono kimu‘a ‘i he fili felave‘i ko ia. (Kupu 65)
Legislature
- English1. The Assembly of the Republic is the representative assembly of all Mozambican citizens.
… (Art. 167) - Portuguese1. A Assembleia da República é a assembleia representativa de todos os cidadãos moçambicanos.
… (Art. 167)
Legislature
- English(1) Subject to the provisions of article 331, the House of the People shall consist of—
(a) not more than five hundred and thirty members chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies in the States, and
(b) not more than twenty members to represent the Union territories, chosen in such manner as Parliament may by law provide.
… (Art. 81) - Hindi(1) अनुच्छेद 331 के उपबंधों के अधीन रहते हुए लोक सभा—
(क) राज्यों में प्रादेशिक निर्वाचन-क्षेत्रों से प्रत्यक्ष निर्वाचन द्वारा चुने गए पाँच सौ तीस से अनधिक सदस्यों, और
(ख) संघ राज्यक्षेत्रों का प्रतिनिधित्व करने के लिए ऐसी रीति से, जो संसद विधि द्वारा उपबंधित करे, चुने हुए बीस से अनधिक सदस्यों से मिलकर बनेगी।
… (अनुच्छेद 81)
Legislature
- English
(1) The members of the Federal Council and their substitutes are elected by the Provincial Parliament for the duration of their respective legislative periods in accordance with the principle of proportional representation but at least one seat must fall to the party having the second largest number of seats in a Provincial Parliament or, should several parties have the same number of seats, the second highest number of votes at the last election to the Provincial Parliament. When the claims of several parties are equal, the issue shall be decided by lot.
… (Art. 35) - German
(1) Die Mitglieder des Bundesrates und ihre Ersatzmitglieder werden von den Landtagen für die Dauer ihrer Gesetzgebungsperiode nach dem Grundsatz der Verhältniswahl gewählt, jedoch muss wenigstens ein Mandat der Partei zufallen, die die zweithöchste Anzahl von Sitzen im Landtag oder, wenn mehrere Parteien die gleiche Anzahl von Sitzen haben, die zweithöchste Zahl von Wählerstimmen bei der letzten Landtagswahl aufweist. Bei gleichen Ansprüchen mehrerer Parteien entscheidet das Los.
… (Art. 35)
Legislature
- English(1) The composition of the National Assembly shall be as follows:
(a) ninety-six (96) members to be elected by the registered voters by direct and secret ballot. Every Namibian citizen who has the qualificaions described in Article 17 hereof shall be entitled to vote in the elections for members of the National Assembly and, subject to Article 47 hereof shall be eligible for candidature as a member of the National Assembly;
(b) not more than eight (8) persons appointed by the President under Article 32(5)(c) hereof by virtue of their special expertise, status, skill or experience: provided that such members shall have no vote in the National Assembly, and shall not be taken into account for the purpose of determining any specific majorities that are required under this Constitution or any other law.
(2) Subject to the principles referred to in Article 49 hereof, the members of the National Assembly referred to in Sub-Article (1)(a) hereof shall be elected in accordance with procedures to be determined by Act of Parliament. (Art. 46)
Legislature
- EnglishThe functions of the legislature are to be exercised through the Islamic Consultative Assembly, consisting of the elected representatives of the people. … (Art. 58)
- Persianاعمال قوه مقننه از طریق مجلس شورای اسلامی است که از نمایندگان منتخب مردم تشکیل میشود. … (اصل 58)
Legislature
- EnglishThe members of the House of Representatives are elected directly by citizens who are at least eighteen years of age and who do not fall within the categories of exclusion stipulated by the law.
Each elector has the right to only one vote. (Art. 61) - DutchDe leden van de Kamer van volksvertegen woordigers worden rechtstreeks gekozen door de burgers die volle achttien jaar oud zijn en die niet verkeren in een der gevallen van uitsluiting bij de wet bepaald.
Ieder kiezer heeft recht op slechts één stem. (Art. 61) - FrenchLes membres de la Chambre des représentants sont élus directement par les citoyens âgés de dix-huit ans accomplis et ne se trouvant pas dans l’un des cas d’exclusion prévus par la loi.
Chaque électeur n’a droit qu’à un vote. (Art. 61) - GermanDie Mitglieder der Abgeordnetenkammer werden unmittelbar von den Bürgern gewählt, die das achtzehnte Lebensjahr vollendet haben und sich nicht in einem der durch Gesetz bestimmten Ausschließungsfälle befinden.
Jeder Wähler hat ein Recht auf nur eine Stimme. (Art. 61)