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Legislature
- EnglishEvery citizen who reaches the age of eighteen has the right to vote.
Every citizen who reaches the age of twenty-one has the right to stand for election to the National Assembly or People’s Councils. The exercise of those rights shall be prescribed by a law. (Art. 27) - VietnameseCông dân đủ mười tám tuổi trở lên có quyền bầu cử và đủ hai mươi mốt tuổi trở lên có quyền ứng cử vào Quốc hội, Hội đồng nhân dân. Việc thực hiện các quyền này do luật định. (Điều 27)
Legislature
- English(1) Members of the German Bundestag shall be elected in general, direct, free, equal and secret elections. They shall be representatives of the whole people, not bound by orders or instructions, and responsible only to their conscience.
(2) Any person who has attained the age of eighteen shall be entitled to vote; any person who has attained the age of majority may be elected.
(3) Details shall be regulated by a federal law. (Art. 38) - German(1) Die Abgeordneten des Deutschen Bundestages werden in allgemeiner, unmittelbarer, freier, gleicher und geheimer Wahl gewählt. Sie sind Vertreter des ganzen Volkes, an Aufträge und Weisungen nicht gebunden und nur ihrem Gewissen unterworfen.
(2) Wahlberechtigt ist, wer das achtzehnte Lebensjahr vollendet hat; wählbar ist, wer das Alter erreicht hat, mit dem die Volljährigkeit eintritt.
(3) Das Nähere bestimmt ein Bundesgesetz. (Art. 38)
Legislature
- EnglishTo be elected deputy the candidate must be a Guatemalan of origin and be in exercise of his [or her] rights of citizenship. (Art. 162)
- SpanishPara ser electo diputado se requiere ser guatemalteco de origen y estar en el ejercicio de sus derechos ciudadanos. (Art. 162)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Majlis Al-Shoura shall be constituted. Its law shall determine the structure of its formation, the method by which it exercises its special powers and the selection of its members. The King shall have the right to dissolve the Majlis Al-Shoura and re-form it. (Basic Law, Art. 68)
- Arabicينشأ مجلس الشّورى، و يبيّن نظامه طريقة تكوينه، و كيفية ممارسته لإختصاصاته، و إختيار أعضائه. و للملك حلّ مجلس الشّورى و إعادة تكوينه. (النّظام الأساسي، المادّة 68)
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
- EnglishOf the Senators-
a. four shall be appointed by the Governor-General, acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister; and
b. two shall be appointed by the Governor-General acting in accordance with the advice of the Leader of the Opposition. (Sec. 28)
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
- 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།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༢༽
Legislature
- English(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, a person shall not be qualified to be a member of Parliament unless—
(a) he is a citizen of Ghana, has attained the age of twenty-one years and is a registered voter;
(b) he is resident in the constituency for which he stands as a candidate for election to Parliament or has resided there for a total period of not less than five years out of the ten years immediately preceding the election for which he stands, or he hails from that constituency; and
(c) he has paid all his taxes or made arrangements satisfactory to the appropriate authority for the payment of his taxes.
… (Art. 94)
Legislature
- EnglishThe House of Representatives is the legislative authority of the state. … (Art. 62)
- Arabicمجلس النواب هو السلطة التشريعية للدولة. ... (المادّة 62)