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Legislature
- English
Subject to the provisions of the next following section and of section 118(1) of this Constitution, a person shall be qualified to be elected as an elected member of the Maneaba ni Maungatabu if, and shall not be so qualified unless-
a. he or she is a citizen of Kiribati;
b. he or she has attained the age of 21 years; and
c. any other requirements prescribed by law. (Sec. 55)4
Legislature
- English(1) Elections for the seats in Parliament provided for under Articles 97(1) (c) and 98 (1) (b), (c) and (d), and for the members of county assemblies under 177 (1) (b) and (c), shall be on the basis of proportional representation by use of party lists.
(2) The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission shall be responsible for the conduct and supervision of elections for seats provided for under clause (1) and shall ensure that—
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(b) except in the case of the seats provided for under Article 98 (1) (b), each party list comprises the appropriate number of qualified candidates and alternates between male and female candidates in the priority in which they are listed;
… (Art. 90) - Swahili(1) Uchaguzi wa viti katika Bunge vilivyobainishwa chini ya Kifungu cha 97 (1) (c) na 98 (1) (b), (c) na (d), na kwa wajumbe wa mabunge ya kaunti chini ya kifungu cha 177 (1) (b) na (c), zitakuwa kwa msingi wa uwakilishi wa usawa kwa kutumia orodha za chama.
(2) Tume Huru ya Uchaguzi na Mipaka itakuwa na jukumu la kufanya na kusimamia uchaguzi wa viti vilivyobainishwa chini ya ibara ya (1) na itahakikisha kwamba—
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(b) isipokuwa katika viti vilivyobainishwa chini ya Kifungu cha 98 ( 1)(b), orodha ya kila chama inajumuisha idadi inayofaa ya wagombea wenye sifa na wanabadilishana kati ya wagombea wa kiume na wa kike katika kipaumbele ambacho kwacho wameorodheshwa;
… (Kifungu cha 90)
Legislature
- English
The Federal Senate is composed of representatives of the states and of the Federal District, elected by a majority vote.
Paragraph 1. Each state and the Federal District shall elect three Senators for a term of office of eight years.
… (Art. 46) - Portuguese
O Senado Federal compõe-se de representantes dos Estados e do Distrito Federal, eleitos segundo o princípio majoritário.
§ 1º Cada Estado e o Distrito Federal elegerão três Senadores, com mandato de oito anos.
... (Art. 46)
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
- EnglishThe Consultative Council consists of forty members appointed by Royal Decree, in accordance with the procedures, conditions, and the method defined by Royal Decree. (Art. 52)
- Arabicيتألف مجلس الشورى من أربعين عضواً يعينون بأمر ملكي، وذلك وفقاً للإجراءات والضوابط والطريقة التي تحدد بأمر ملكي .(المادّة 52)
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) There shall be a Parliament of New Zealand, which shall consist of the Sovereign in right of New Zealand and the House of Representatives.
… (Constitution Act 1986, Sec. 14)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Parliament is composed of the National Assembly and the Senate. It votes the law. It controls the action of the Government. It evaluates the public policies. (Art. 68)
- FrenchLe Parlement comprend l’Assemblée Nationale et le Sénat. Il vote la loi. Il contrôle l’action du Gouvernement. Il évalue les politiques publiques. (Art. 68)
Legislature
- EnglishTo be elected [a] Representative, it is required to be in full exercise of citizenship and be older than twenty-five years of age on the date of the election. (Art. 177)
- SpanishPara ser elegido representante se requiere ser ciudadano en ejercicio y tener más de veinticinco años de edad en la fecha de la elección. (Art. 177)
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)