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Legislature
- EnglishThe Parliament is composed of two Chambers: the National Assembly and the Senate.
The Parliament exercises the legislative power and controls the action of the Government.
… (Art. 107) - FrenchLe Parlement est composé de deux chambres: l’Assemblée nationale et le Sénat.
Le Parlement exerce le pouvoir législatif et contrôle l’action du Gouvernement.
… (Art. 107)
Legislature
- English1. Parliament shall consist of-
a. members directly elected to represent constituencies;
b. one woman representative for every district;
c. such numbers of representatives of the army, youth, workers, persons with disabilities and other groups as Parliament may determine; and
d. the Vice President and Ministers, who, if not already elected members of Parliament, shall be ex officio members of Parliament without the right to vote on any issue requiring a vote in Parliament.
2. Upon the expiration of a period of ten years after the commencement of this Constitution and thereafter, every five years,
Parliament shall review the representation under clause (1)(b) and (c) of this article for the purposes of retaining, increasing or abolishing any such representation and any other matter incidental to it.
3. The representatives referred to in clause (l)(a) of this article shall be elected on the basis of universal adult suffrage and by secret ballot.
4. Parliament shall, by law, prescribe the procedure for elections of representatives referred to in clause (1)(b) and (c) of this article. (Art. 78)
Legislature
- EnglishParliament may make laws for the peace, order and good government of Trinidad and Tobago, so, however, that the provisions of this Constitution or (in so far as it forms part of the law of Trinidad and Tobago) the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Act 1962 of the United Kingdom may not be altered except in accordance with the provisions of section 54. (Sec. 53)
Legislature
- English
(1) The members of the House of Representatives shall, within fifteen days of the date of holding of the first meeting of the House of Representatives, elect a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker from amongst themselves.
(2) Election pursuant to clause (1) shall be so held that there is one woman out of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker, and the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be representatives from different parties.
… (Art. 91) - Nepali
(१) प्रतिनिधि सभाको पहिलो बैठक प्रारम्भ भएको मितिले पन्ध्र दिनभित्र प्रतिनिधि सभाका सदस्यहरूले आफूमध्येबाट प्रतिनिधि सभाको सभामुख र उपसभामुखको निर्वाचन गर्नेछन् ।
(२) उपधारा (१) बमोजिम निर्वाचन गर्दा प्रतिनिधि सभाको सभामुख र उपसभामुख मध्ये एकजना महिला हुने गरी गर्नु पर्नेछ र प्रतिनिधि सभाको सभामुख र उपसभामुख फरक फरक दलको प्रतिनिधि हुनु पर्नेछ ।
... (धारा ९१)
Legislature
- English
(1) Parliament is the supreme representative body of the people of the Republic of Moldova and the sole legislative authority of the State.
(2) Parliament is composed of 101 members. (Art. 60) - Moldovian
(1) Parlamentul este organul reprezentativ suprem al poporului Republicii Moldova şi unica autoritate legislativă a statului.
(2) Parlamentul este compus din 101 deputaţi. (Art. 60)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Deputies to the National Assembly are elected for five years by direct and secret universal suffrage. They are re-eligible.
All Djiboutian citizens, enjoying their civil and political rights, twenty-three years of age or more, are eligible. (Art. 45) - Arabicينتخب أعضاء المجلس الوطني لفترة خمسة أعوام باقتراع عام مباشر وسري.إنهم مؤهلون لإعادة انتخابهم.
جميع المواطنين الجيبوتيين المتمتعين بحقوقهم المدنية والسياسية الذين أتموا ثلاثة وعشرين عاماُ أو أكثر هم مؤهلون. (المادة 45) - FrenchLes députés à l'Assemblée nationale sont élus pour cinq ans au suffrage universel direct et secret. Ils sont rééligibles.
Sont éligibles tous les citoyens djiboutiens, jouissant de leurs droits civils et politiques, âgés de vingt trois ans au moins. (Art. 45)
Legislature
- EnglishThere shall be in and for Belize a Legislature which shall consist of a National Assembly comprising two Houses, that is to say, a House of Representatives and a Senate. (Sec. 55)
Legislature
- English…
(3) Members must be appointed or elected to the Committee on Standing Rules and Orders as soon as possible after the beginning of the first session of each Parliament, and they must be selected so that the committee reflects as nearly as possible the political and gender composition of the combined Houses of Parliament.
… (Sec. 151)
Legislature
- EnglishThe National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, as the highest legislative organ, shall manifest the will of its people as well as represent the entire nation.
… (Art. 81) - Dariشورای ملی دولت جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان به حیث عالی ترین ارگان تقنینی مظهر ارادۀ مردم آن است و از قاطبۀ ملت نمایندگی می كند.
... (مادۀ ۸۱) - Pashtoد افغانستان د اسلامي جمهوري دولت ملي شورى د ستر تقنيني اورگان په توگه د افغانستان د خلكو د ارادې ښكارندويه ده او د ټول ملت نمايندگي كوي.
...(۸۱ ماده)
Legislature
- EnglishNo person shall be a Member of the House of Representatives unless he is a natural-born citizen of the Philippines and, on the day of the election, is at least twenty-five years of age, able to read and write, and, except the party-list representatives, a registered voter in the district in which he shall be elected, and a resident thereof for a period of not less than one year immediately preceding the day of the election. (Art. VI, Sec. 6)
- FilipinoHindi dapat maging Kagawad ng Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan ang sino mang tao matangi kung siya ay katutubong ipinanganak na mamamayan ng Pilipinas at, sa mga araw ng halalan, ay dalawampu't limang taong gulang man lamang, nakababasa at nakasusulat, at, maliban sa mga kinatawan ng partilist, rehistradong botante sa purok na paghahalalan sa kanya, at nakapanirahan doon sa loob ng panahong di kukulangin sa isang taon kagyat bago sumapit ang araw ng halalan. (Art. VI, Seksyon 6)