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Legislature
- EnglishMembers of the People’s Assembly shall be elected by the public, secret, direct and equal vote in accordance with the provisions of the Election Law. (Art. 57)
- Arabicيُنتخب أعضاء مجلس الشعب بالاقتراع العام والسري والمباشر والمتساوي وفقاً لأحكام قانون الانتخاب. (المادّة 57)
Legislature
- EnglishThe legislative power of the Republic shall be vested in the Legislature of Liberia which shall consist of two separate houses: A Senate and a House of Representatives, both of which must pass on all legislation. … (Art. 29)
Legislature
- English
The National Council of the Slovak Republic shall be the sole constitutional and legislative body of the Slovak Republic. (Art. 72)
- Slovak
Národná rada Slovenskej republiky je jediným ústavodarným a zákonodarným orgánom Slovenskej republiky. (Čl. 72)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Chamber of Deputies is composed of members elected in direct voting by electoral districts. The respective constitutional organic law will determine the number of deputies, the electoral districts and the form of their election.
… (Art. 47) - SpanishLa Cámara de Diputados está integrada por miembros elegidos en votación directa por distritos electorales. La ley orgánica constitucional respectiva determinará el número de diputados, los distritos electorales y la forma de su elección.
… (Art. 47)
Legislature
- English
1. The National Council shall consist of twenty-five members comprising:
(a) One member elected by the voters in each of the twenty Dzongkhags; and
(b) Five eminent persons nominated by the Druk Gyalpo.
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3. A candidate to or a member of the National Council shall not belong to any political party.
… (Art. 11) - Dzongkha
༡) རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ནང་ འཐུས་མི་ཉེར་ལྔ་ཡོད་མིའི་གྲངས་ཚུ་ཚུད་དགོཔ་འདི་ཡང་།
ཀ༽ རྫོང་ཁག་ཉི་ཤུ་རེ་རེ་བཞིན་གྱི་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་སྐྱུར་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ བཙག་འཐུ་གྲུབ་པའི་ འཐུས་མི་རེ་དང་།
ཁ༽ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་གདམ་ཁ་གྲུབ་པའི་ཁྱད་ལྡན་གྱི་མི་ངོ་ལྔ།
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༣) རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་དོན་ལུ་འདེམས་ངོ་ ཡང་ན་ དེའི་འཐུས་མི་ཅིག་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ གང་རུང་ཅིག་གི་ ཁོངས་སུ་གཏོགས་ནི་ མེད།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༡༽
Legislature
- EnglishThere shall be a Parliament of Samoa, which shall consist of the Head of State and the Legislative Assembly. (Art. 42)
- SamoanO le a i ai se Palemene o Samoa, lea o le a aofia ai le Ao o le Malo ma le Fono Aoao Faitulafono. (Mataupu 42)
Legislature
- EnglishLegislative power is vested in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on behalf of Turkish Nation. This power shall not be delegated. (Art. 7)
- TurkishYasama yetkisi Türk Milleti adına Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisinindir. Bu yetki devredilemez. (Madde 7)
Legislature
- EnglishThe legislative power belongs to the Parliament. (Art. 45)
- Arabicيمارس البرلمان السلطة التشريعية. (المادّة 45)
- FrenchLe pouvoir législatif appartient au Parlement. (Art. 45)
Legislature
- EnglishThe constitutional composition of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine consists of 450 National Deputies of Ukraine who are elected for a five-year term on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage, by secret ballot.
A citizen of Ukraine who has attained the age of twenty-one on the day of elections, has the right to vote, and has resided on the territory of Ukraine for the past five years, may be a National Deputy of Ukraine.
... (Art. 76) - UkrainianКонституційний склад Верховної Ради України – чотириста п'ятдесят народних депутатів України, які обираються на основі загального, рівного і прямого виборчого права шляхом таємного голосування строком на п’ять років.
Народним депутатом України може бути обрано громадянина України, який на день виборів досяг двадцяти одного року, має право голосу і проживає в Україні протягом останніх п'яти років.
... (Стаття 76)
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)