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Legislature
- English(1) A person is qualified for election as a Member of the National Assembly if he or she—
(a) is registered as a voter; and
(b) is at least twenty-one years of age;
unless he or she is disqualified under subsection (2) or (3).
… (Sec. 125)
Legislature
- EnglishA member of the National Assembly must:
a. be originally of Kuwaiti nationality in accordance with the Law;
b. fulfill the voter's qualifications in accordance with the Electoral Law;
c. have attained at least the age of thirty Gregorian calendar years on election day; and
d. have a sound reading and writing knowledge of Arabic. (Art. 82) - Arabicيشترط في عضو مجلس الأمة:
أ.أن يكون كويتي الجنسية بصفة أصلية وفقا للقانون
ب.أن تتوافر فيه شروط الناخب وفقا لقانون الانتخاب
ج.ألا يقل سنه يوم الانتخاب عن ثلاثين سنة ميلادية
د.أن يجيد قراءة اللغة العربية وكتابته (المادّة 82)
Legislature
- English
(1) Every adult Hungarian citizen shall have the right to vote and to be voted for in elections of Members of the National Assembly, of local government representatives and mayors and of Members of the European Parliament.
… (Freedom and Responsibility, Art. XXIII) - Hungarian
(1) Minden nagykorú magyar állampolgárnak joga van ahhoz, hogy az országgyűlési képviselők, a helyi önkormányzati képviselők és polgármesterek, valamint az európai parlamenti képviselők választásán választó és választható legyen.
… (Szabadság és Felelősség, XXIII. cikk)
Legislature
- English(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the House of Representatives shall consist of members who shall be elected in the manner provided by Parliament.
… (Sec. 46)
Legislature
- English(1) The election of persons to any chamber of Parliament or Bucopho shall be by secret ballot at both primary and secondary levels or any other level in accordance with the first-past-the-post system in which the person receiving the highest number of votes is elected.
… (Sec. 87)
Legislature
- EnglishThere shall be a Parliament of The Bahamas which shall consist of Her majesty, a Senate and a House of Assembly. (Art. 38)
Legislature
- English(a) The legislative power of the Union is shared among the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, Region Hluttaws and State Hluttaws. Legislative power stipulated by this Constitution shall be shared to the Self-Administered Areas.
(b) The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw consisting of two Hluttaws, one Hluttaw elected on the basis of township as well as population, and the other on an equal number of representatives elected from Regions and States. (Sec. 12) - Burmese(က) နိုင်ငံတော်၏ ဥပဒေပြုရေးအာဏာကို ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်၊ တိုင်းဒေသ ကြီးလွှတ်တော် နှင့် ပြည်နယ်လွှတ်တော်များအား ခွဲဝေအပ်နှင်းသည်။ ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ စီရင် စုများအား ဤဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေက သတ်မှတ်သော ဥပဒေပြုရေးအာဏာကို ခွဲဝေအပ်နှင်းသည်၊
(ခ) ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်တွင် မြို့နယ်ကိုအခြေခံ၍လည်းကောင်း၊ လူဦးရေကို အခြေခံ၍လည်းကောင်း၊ ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်သည့် လွှတ်တော်တစ်ရပ်၊ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများ နှင့် ပြည်နယ်များမှ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်ဦးရေတူညီစွာ ရွေးကောက်တင် မြှောက်သည့် လွှတ်တော်တစ်ရပ်ဟူ၍ လွှတ်တော်နှစ်ရပ် ပါရှိသည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၁၂)
Legislature
- EnglishSubject to the provisions of section 44, any person who
(a) is a citizen of Barbados of the age of twenty-one years or upwards; and
(b) has such connection with Barbados by residence therein as may be prescribed by Parliament, shall be qualified to be elected as a member of the House of Assembly. (Sec. 43)
Legislature
- English1) Parliament shall be the legal organ representing all Liechtenstein citizens and as such shall be called upon to represent and assert the rights and interests of the People in relation to the Government in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution and to promote to the extent possible the welfare of the Princely House and of the country while faithfully adhering to the principles laid down in this Constitution.
… (Art. 45) - German1) Der Landtag ist das gesetzmässige Organ der Gesamtheit der Landesangehörigen und als solches berufen, nach den Bestimmungen dieser Verfassung die Rechte und Interessen des Volkes im Verhältnis zur Regierung wahrzunehmen und geltend zu machen und das Wohl des Fürstlichen Hauses und des Landes mit treuer Anhänglichkeit an die in dieser Verfassung niedergelegten Grundsätze möglichst zu fördern.
… (Art. 45)
Legislature
- EnglishIt shall be the function of the National Assembly:
1. To legislate in matters of national competence and as to the functioning of the various branches of National Power.
2. To propose amendments to and revisions of the Constitution, on the terms established in this Constitution.
... (Art. 187) - SpanishCorresponde a la Asamblea Nacional:
1. Legislar en las materias de la competencia nacional y sobre el funcionamiento de las distintas ramas del Poder Nacional.
2. Proponer enmiendas y reformas a la Constitución, en los términos establecidos en esta Constitución.
... (Art. 187)