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Legislature
- EnglishI. The Chamber of Deputies shall have 130 members.
II. In each Department, half of the Deputies (Diputados) shall be elected by direct voting electoral districts. The other half shall be elected by proportional voting electoral districts, from lists headed by candidates for President, Vice President and the Senators of the Republic.
III. Deputies are elected by universal, direct and secret vote. In the single Districts, they are elected by simply majority of the voters; in the multiple districts, by a system of representation established by law.
IV. The number of Deputies must reflect the proportional vote obtained by each party, citizen group or indigenous people.
… (Art. 146) - SpanishI. La Cámara de Diputados estará conformada por 130 miembros.
II. En cada Departamento, se eligen la mitad de los Diputados en circunscripciones uninominales. La otra mitad se elige en circunscripciones plurinominales departamentales, de las listas encabezadas por los candidatos a Presidente, Vicepresidente y Senadores de la República.
III. Los Diputados son elegidos en votación universal, directa y secreta. En las circunscripciones uninominales por simple mayoría de sufragios. En las circunscripciones plurinominales mediante el sistema de representación que establece la ley.
IV. El número de Diputados debe reflejar la votación proporcional obtenida por cada partido, agrupación ciudadana o pueblo indígena.
... (Art. 146)
Legislature
- English1 The Federal Assembly shall enact provisions that establish binding legal rules in the form of federal acts or ordinances.
… (Art. 163) - French1 L’Assemblée fédérale édicte les dispositions fixant des règles de droit sous la forme d’une loi fédérale ou d’une ordonnance.
... (Art. 163) - German1 Die Bundesversammlung erlässt rechtsetzende Bestimmungen in der Form des Bundesgesetzes oder der Verordnung.
… (Art. 163) - Italian1 L’Assemblea federale emana norme di diritto sotto forma di legge federale o ordinanza.
… (Art. 163)
Legislature
- English(1) Subject to this section, the Parliament is a single-chamber legislature, consisting of-
(a) a number of members elected from single-member open electorates; and
(b) a number of members elected from single-member provincial electorates; and
(c) not more than three nominated members, appointed and holding office in accordance with Section 102 (nominated members); and
(d) a number of women elected from a single-member women's electorates as defined under an Organic Law.
… (Sec. 101)
Legislature
- English1. The National Assembly is the people’s representative body.
2. The National Assembly shall exercise the legislative power.
3. The National Assembly shall exercise oversight of the executive power, shall adopt the state budget, and shall perform other functions stipulated by the Constitution.
... (Art. 88) - Armenian1. Ազգային ժողովը ժողովրդի ներկայացուցչական մարմինն է:
2. Ազգային ժողովն իրականացնում է օրենսդիր իշխանությունը:
3. Ազգային ժողովը վերահսկողություն է իրականացնում գործադիր իշխանության նկատմամբ, ընդունում է պետական բյուջեն և իրականացնում է Սահմանադրությամբ սահմանված այլ գործառույթներ:
... (Հոդված 88)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Deputies are elected for five years by universal direct suffrage. A law establishes the modalities of this election. (Art. 61)
- FrenchLes Députés sont élus pour cinq ans au suffrage universel direct. Une loi fixe les modalités de cette élection. (Art. 61)
Legislature
- English
The supreme state representative body shall be the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan that exercises legislative power.
The Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan consists of two chambers — the Legislative Chamber (the lower chamber) and the Senate (the upper chamber).
… (Art. 91) - Uzbek
O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Oliy Majlisi oliy davlat vakillik organi bo‘lib, qonun chiqaruvchi hokimiyatni amalga oshiradi.
O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy Majlisi ikki palatadan — Qonunchilik palatasi (quyi palata) va Senatdan (yuqori palata) iborat.
… (91-modda)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Senate is composed of members elected by direct vote in senatorial circumscriptions, in consideration of the regions of the country, each one of which will constitute, at the least, one circumscription. The respective constitutional organic law will determine the number of Senators, the senatorial circumscriptions and the form of their election.
... (Art. 49) - SpanishEl Senado se compone de miembros elegidos en votación directa por circunscripciones senatoriales, en consideración a las regiones del país, cada una de las cuales constituirá, a lo menos, una circunscripción. La ley orgánica constitucional respectiva determinará el número de Senadores, las circunscripciones senatoriales y la forma de su elección.
... (Art. 49)
Legislature
- English(1) Members of Parliament shall be elected under a system of universal, citizen, adult suffrage, in accordance with this Constitution and any law made for the purposes of section 89 (electoral laws).
(2) All contested elections of members of Parliament shall be held by secret ballot.
… (Sec. 87)
Legislature
- English
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5. Election to the National Assembly shall be by two political parties established through a primary round of election in which all registered political parties may participate.
6. A primary round of election shall be held to select the two political parties for the general election on the expiry of the term of the National Assembly or in the event of dissolution under section 12 of this Article.
7. The two political parties obtaining the first and the second highest number of votes in the primary election shall be declared as the two political parties for the purpose of section 5 of this Article to contest in the general election.
... (Art. 15) - Dzongkha
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༥) ཐོ་བཀོད་གྲུབ་པའི་སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ཆ་མཉམ་གྱིས་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ཆོག་པའི་འགོ་ཐོག་ བཙག་འཐུའི་ འདེམས་རིམ་ བརྒྱུད་དེ་ གཞི་བཙུགས་གྲུབ་པའི་སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་གཉིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་བཙག་འཐུའི་དོན་ལུ་ཨིན།
༦) རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་གནས་ཡུན་ཚང་བ་ ཡང་ན་ རྩ་ཚན་འདིའི་དོན་ཚན་༡༢ པའི་ དགོངས་དོན་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ རྩ་གྲོལ་སོང་བ་ཡིན་ཚེ་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་གཉིས་གདམ་ཁ་རྐྱབ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ འགོ་ཐོག་བཙག་འཐུ་ཅིག་འབད་དགོ།
༧) འགོ་ཐོག་བཙག་འཐུའི་ནང་ རྒྱན་གྲངས་མཐོ་ཤོས་དང་པ་དང་གཉིས་པ་ཐོབ་མི་སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་གཉིས་པོ་དེ་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་ བཙག་འཐུའི་ནང་འགྲན་སྡུར་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ རྩ་ཚན་འདིའི་ དོན་ཚན་༥ པའི་དགོས་དོན་ལུ་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་གཉིས་ ཨིན་པའི་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་འབད་དགོ།
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