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Legislature
- EnglishThe National Assembly of People's Power in the only organ with legislative and constituent power within the Republic. (Art. 103)
- SpanishLa Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular es el único órgano con potestad constituyente y legislativa en la República. (Art. 103)
Legislature
- English
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The election of members of the National Assembly and the Local People'sAssemblies shall be carried out through the principles of universal equal direct suffrage and secret balloting.
… (Art. 4) - Lao
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ການເລືອກຕັ້ງສະມາຊິກສະພາແຫ່ງຊາດ ແລະ ສະພາປະຊາຊົນທ້ອງຖິ່ນແມ່ນປະຕິບັດຕາມຫຼັກການທົ່ວໄປ, ສະເໝີພາບ, ໂດຍກົງ ແລະ ລົງຄະແນນສຽງປິດລັບ.
... (ມາດຕາ 4) (ປັບປຸງ)
Legislature
- EnglishThe National People's Congress is composed of deputies elected from the provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the special administrative regions, and of deputies elected from the armed forces. All the minority nationalities are entitled to appropriate representation.
Election of deputies to the National People's Congress is conducted by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
The number of deputies to the National People's Congress and the manner of their election are prescribed by law. (Art. 59) - Chinese全国人民代表大会由省、自治区、直辖市、特别行政区和军队选出的代表组成。各少数民族都应当有适当名额的代表。
全国人民代表大会代表的选举由全国人民代表大会常务委员会主持。
全国人民代表大会代表名额和代表产生办法由法律规定。(第五十九条)
Legislature
- English(1) Members of the National Assembly shall be elected by universal and equal suffrage in a direct and secret ballot, in elections which guarantee the free expression of the will of the voters, in the manner laid down in a cardinal Act.
… (The State, Art. 2) - Hungarian(1) Az országgyűlési képviselőket a választópolgárok általános és egyenlő választójog alapján, közvetlen és titkos szavazással, a választók akaratának szabad kifejezését biztosító választáson, sarkalatos törvényben meghatározott módon választják.
... (Az Állam, 2. cikk)
Legislature
- EnglishSubject to the provisions of this Constitution, Parliament shall have power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of Botswana. (Sec. 86)
Legislature
- English
(1) Every citizen who is qualified to vote for the National Assembly is eligible to be a member of the Assembly,
… (Sec. 47)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Legislative Branch of Government is exercised by the National Assembly, which is comprised of Assembly persons elected for a four-year term of office.
… (Art. 118) - SpanishLa Función Legislativa se ejerce por la Asamblea Nacional, que se integrará por asambleístas elegidos para un período de cuatro años.
… (Art. 118)
Legislature
- EnglishPersons who possess the following qualifications shall be entitled to be elected as the Pyithu Hluttaw representatives :
(a) person who has attained the age of 25 years;
(b) citizen who was born of both parents who are citizens;
(c) person who has resided in the Union of Myanmar for at least ten consecutive years up to the time of his election as Pyithu Hluttaw representative;
Proviso: The official period of stay in a foreign country with the permission of the Union shall be counted as a residing period in the Union,
(d) person who possesses qualifications prescribed by the Election Law. (Sec. 120) - Burmeseအောက်ပါအရည်အချင်းများနှင့် ပြည့်စုံသူသည် ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်သို့ လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အဖြစ် ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ခံပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသည် -
(က) အသက် ၂၅ နှစ်ပြည့်ပြီးသူ၊
(ခ)နိုင်ငံသားမိဘနှစ်ပါးမှ မွေးဖွားသောနိုင်ငံသားဖြစ်သူ၊
(ဂ) ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားလှယ် အဖြစ်ရွေးကောက်တင်မြောက်ခံရသည့် အချိန်နှင့် တစ်ဆက်တည်း ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်တွင် အနည်းဆုံး ၁၀ နှစ် အခြေချနေထိုင်ခဲ့သူ၊
ခြွင်းချက်။ နိုင်ငံတော်၏ခွင့်ပြုချက်ဖြင့် နိုင်ငံခြားသို့တရားဝင်သွားရောက်သည့်ကာလများကိုလည်းနိုင်ငံတော်တွင်အခြေချနေထိုင်ခဲ့သည့် ကာလအဖြစ် ထည့်သွင်းရေတွက်ရမည်။
(ဃ) ရွေးကောက်တင်မြောက်ခြင်း ဆိုင်ရဥပဒေတွင် သတ်မှတ်ထားသည့် အရည်းအချင်းများနှင့်ပြည်စုံသူ။ (ပုဒ်မ-၁၂၀)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Seimas shall consist of representatives of the Nation—141 Members of the Seimas, who shall be elected for a four-year term on the basis of universal, equal, and direct suffrage by secret ballot.
The Seimas shall be deemed elected when not less than 3/5 of the Members of the Seimas are elected.
The procedure for the election of the Members of the Seimas shall be established by law. (Art. 55) - LithuanianSeimą sudaro Tautos atstovai - 141 Seimo narys, kurie renkami ketveriems metams remiantis visuotine, lygia, tiesiogine rinkimų teise ir slaptu balsavimu.
Seimas laikomas išrinktu, kai yra išrinkta ne mažiau kaip 3/5 Seimo narių.
Seimo narių rinkimų tvarką nustato įstatymas. (55 straipsnis)
Legislature
- English
(1) The National Assembly shall be a permanent House.
(2) The National Assembly shall consist of fifty-nine members as follows: -
(a) Fifty six elected members consisting of at least three women, one Dalit and one from persons with disabilities or minorities, from each Province by an electoral college consisting of members of the Provincial Assembly, chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of the Rural Municipalities, and Mayors and Deputy-Mayors of the Municipalities, with different weightage of vote by members of the Provincial Assembly, chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of the Rural Municipalities, and Mayors and Deputy-Mayors of the Municipalities, as provided for in the federal law,
(b) Three members consisting of at least one woman nominated by the President on the recommendation of the Government of Nepal.
… (Art. 86) - Nepali
(१) राष्ट्रिय सभा एक स्थायी सदन हुनेछ ।
(२) राष्ट्रिय सभामा देहाय बमोजिमका उनान्साठी सदस्य रहनेछन्ः–
(क) प्रदेश सभाका सदस्य, गाउँपालिकाका अध्यक्ष र उपाध्यक्ष तथा नगरपालिकाका प्रमुख र उपप्रमुख रहेको निर्वाचकद्धट मण्डलद्वारा संघीय कानून बमोजिम प्रदेश सभाका सदस्य, गाउँपालिकाका अध्यक्ष र उपाध्यक्ष तथा नगरपालिकाका प्रमुख र उपप्रमुखको मतको भार फरक हुने गरी प्रत्येक प्रदेशबाट कम्तीमा तीन जना महिला, एक जना दलित र एक जना अपांगता भएका व्यक्ति वा अल्पसंख्यक सहित आठ जना गरी निर्वाचित छपन्न जना,
(ख) नेपाल सरकारको सिफारिसमा राष्ट्रपतिबाट मनोनीत कम्तीमा एक जना महिला सहित तीन जना ।
... (धारा ८६)