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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
- English(1) The election of members of Parliament is by a multi-member open list system of proportional representation, under which each voter has one vote, with each vote being of equal value, in a single national electoral roll comprising all the registered voters.
… (Sec. 53) - iTaukei(1) Na lewenipalimedi era na digitaki ena iwiliwili ni mata dola raraba. Ena iwalewale ni veidigidigi qo, na levu na dabedabe e winitaka e dua na matapolitiki se ilawalawa ni matavakaturi, ena veiraurau kei na levu ni digidigi e rawata na matapolitiki se ilawalawa ni matavakaturi. Ena iwalewale ni veidigidigi qo na tamata taucoko e veidigidigi me dua na nona idigidigi, qo e kena ibalebale ni digidigi ni lewenivanua yadua e wiliki vakatautauvata ka na tu tale ga e dua na ivola ni veidigidigi vakamatanitu e tabaki kina o ira na lewenivanua taucoko era volayaca ni veidigidigi.
… (Sec. 53)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Deputies to the National Assembly are elected by universal direct suffrage.
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The minimum age to be eligible to the National Assembly is to be already [révolu] 25 years old. (Art. 60) - FrenchLes députés à l'Assemblée nationale sont élus au suffrage universel direct.
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L'âge minimum pour être éligible à l'Assemblée nationale est de 25 ans révolus. (Art. 60)
Legislature
- English(1) The members of the DPD4 shall be elected from every province through a general election.
(2) The total number of members of DPD in every province shall be the same, and the total membership of the DPD shall not exceed a third of the total membership of the DPR.
… (Art. 22C) - Indonesian(1) Anggota Dewan Perwakilan Daerah dipilih dari setiap provinsi melalui pemilihan umum.
(2) Anggota Dewan Perwakilan Daerah dari setiap provinsi jumlahnya sama dan jumlah seluruh anggota Dewan Perwakilan Daerah itu tidak lebih dari sepertiga jumlah anggota Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat.
… (Pasal 22C)
Legislature
- EnglishThe federal legislative power is exercised jointly by the King, the House of Representatives and the Senate. (Art. 36)
- DutchDe federale wetgevende macht wordt gezamenlijk uitgeoefend door de Koning, de Kamer van volksvertegenwoordigers en de Senaat. (Art. 36)
- FrenchLe pouvoir législatif fédéral s’exerce collectivement par le Roi, la Chambre des représentants et le Sénat. (Art. 36)
- GermanDie föderale gesetzgebende Gewalt wird vom König, von der Abgeordnetenkammer und vom Senat gemeinsam ausgeübt. (Art. 36)
Legislature
- EnglishTo be elected Deputy [it] is required to be a citizen with the right of suffrage, [to] have become twenty-one years of age, [to] have completed secondary education, or [the] equivalent, and [to] have residence in the region to which the corresponding electoral district pertains for a period no less than two years, counted backwards from the date of the election. (Art. 48)
- SpanishPara ser elegido diputado se requiere ser ciudadano con derecho a sufragio, tener cumplidos veintiún años de edad, haber cursado la enseñanza media o equivalente, y tener residencia en la región a que pertenezca el distrito electoral correspondiente durante un plazo no inferior a dos años, contado hacia atrás desde el día de la elección. (Art. 48)
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
- English
(1) Parliament shall consist of eighteen members or such greater number as is prescribed by law.
(2) For the purpose of the election of members of Parliament, Nauru shall be divided into constituencies.
(3) Unless otherwise prescribed by law, the constituencies and the number of members of Parliament to be returned by each of the constituencies are those described in the Second Schedule.
… (Art. 28)
Legislature
- EnglishCitizens of Liberia who meet the following qualifications are eligible to become members of the Legislature.
a. for the Senate, have attained the age of 30 years and for the House of Representatives, have attained the age of 25 years;
b. be domiciled in the country or constituency to be represented not less than one year prior to the time of the election and be a taxpayer. (Art. 30)
Legislature
- EnglishThe King appoints the members of the Senate and appoints the Speaker of the Senate from amongst them and accepts their resignation. (Art. 36)
- Arabicالملك يعين اعضاء مجلس الاعيان ويعين من بينهم رئيس مجلس الاعيان ويقبل استقالتهم. (المادّة 36)