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Legislature
- English1. The Jogorku Kenesh - the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic - shall be the highest representative body exercising legislative power and oversight functions within the limits of its competence.
2. The Jogorku Kenesh shall consist of 120 deputies elected for a five year term on the basis of proportional representation.
As a result of elections a political party may not be granted more than 65 deputy mandates in the Parliament.
Any citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic who has reached 21 years of age as of the election day and who possesses the electoral right, may be elected as a Deputy of the Jogorku Kenesh.
The procedure of electing the deputies to the Jogorku Kenesh including the establishment of an electoral threshold for passing to the Parliament, shall be defined in the constitutional law.
… (Art. 70) - Russian1. Жогорку Кенеш – парламент Кыргызской Республики – является высшим представительным органом, осуществляющим законодательную власть и контрольные функции в пределах своих полномочий.
2. Жогорку Кенеш состоит из 120 депутатов, избираемых сроком на 5 лет по пропорциональной системе.
По результатам выборов политической партии может быть предоставлено не более 65 депутатских мандатов в парламенте.
Депутатом Жогорку Кенеша может быть избран гражданин Кыргызской Республики, достигший на день выборов 21 года, обладающий избирательным правом.
Порядок избрания депутатов Жогорку Кенеша, включая избирательный порог для прохождения в парламент, определяется конституционным законом.
... (Статья 70) - Kyrgyz1. Жогорку Кеңеш – Кыргыз Республикасынын парламенти – мыйзам чыгаруу бийлигин жана өз ыйгарым укуктарынын чегинде контролдук кылуу милдеттерин жүзөгө ашыруучу өкүлчүлүктүү жогорку орган болуп саналат.
2. Жогорку Кеңеш пропорциялуу система боюнча 5 жылдык мөөнөткө шайлануучу 120 депутаттан турат.
Шайлоонун жыйынтыктары боюнча саясий партияга парламентте 65тен көп эмес депутаттык мандат берилиши мүмкүн.
Шайлоо күнүнө карата 21 жашка чыккан, шайлоого укугу бар Кыргыз Республикасынын жараны Жогорку Кеңештин депутаты болуп шайлана алат.
Парламентке өтүү үчүн шайлоо босогосун кошуп алганда Жогорку Кеңештин депутаттарын шайлоонун тартиби конституциялык мыйзам менен аныкталат.
… (70-берене)
Legislature
- EnglishLegislative power is vested in a Parliament composed of two Chambers:
1° the members of the Chamber of Deputies are known as “Deputies”;
2° the members of the Senate are known as “Senators”.
Parliament debates and passes laws. It legislates and exercises control over the Executive in accordance with procedures determined by this Constitution. (Art. 64) - KinyarwandaUbutegetsi Nshingamategeko bushinzwe Inteko Ishinga Amategeko igizwe n’Imitwe ibiri:
1° Umutwe w’Abadepite, abawugize bitwa «Abadepite»;
2° Sena, abayigize bitwa «Abasenateri».
Inteko Ishinga Amategeko ijya impaka ku mategeko ikanayatora. Ishyiraho amategeko ikanagenzura imikorere ya Guverinoma mu buryo buteganywa n’iri Tegeko Nshinga. (Ingingo ya 64) - FrenchLe Pouvoir Législatif est exercé par un Parlement composé de deux Chambres :
1° les membres de la Chambre des Députés portent le nom de « Députés»;
2° le membres du Sénat portent le nom de « Sénateurs ».
Le Parlement débat et vote des lois. Il légifère et contrôle l’action du Gouvernement dans les conditions définies par la présente Constitution. (Art. 64)
Legislature
- English(1) HUNGARY’s supreme representative organ shall be the National Assembly.
… (The State, Art. 1) - Hungarian(1) MAGYARORSZÁG legfőbb népképviseleti szerve az Országgyűlés.
… (Az Állam, 1. cikk)
Legislature
- English
(1) The House of Assembly shall consist of thirty members or such greater number of members as Parliament may prescribe.
(2) The members of the House (who shall be known as “Members of Parliament”) shall be persons who, being qualified for election as such in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution, have been so elected in the manner provided by this Constitution. (Sec. 41)
Legislature
- EnglishThe National Assembly shall consist of Deputies elected in each of the federal entities by universal, direct, personalized and secret ballot with proportional representation, using a constituency base of 1.1 % of the total population of the country.
Each federal organ shall also elect three additional deputies. The native peoples of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela shall elect three deputies in accordance with the provisions established under election law, respecting the traditions and customs thereof. … (Art. 186) - SpanishLa Asamblea Nacional estará integrada por diputados y diputadas elegidos o elegidas en cada entidad federal por votación universal, directa, personalizada y secreta con representación proporcional, según una base poblacional del uno coma uno por ciento de la población total del país.
Cada entidad federal elegirá ,además, tres diputados o diputadas.
Los pueblos indígenas de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela elegirán tres diputados o diputadas de acuerdo con lo establecido en la ley electoral, respetando sus tradiciones y costumbres. ... (Art. 186)
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
- EnglishThe Pyidaungsu Hluttaw comprises of the following two Hluttaws :
(a) in accord with the provisions of Section 109, the Pyithu Hluttaw formed with Hluttaw representatives elected on the basis of township as well as population and Hluttaw representatives being the Defence Services Personnel nominated by the Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services;
(b) in accord with the provisions of Section 141, the Amyotha Hluttaw formed with Hluttaw representatives elected in equal numbers from Regions and States and Hluttaw representatives being the Defence Services Personnel nominated by the Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services. (Sec. 74) - Burmeseပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်တွင် အောက်ပါလွှတ်တော်နှစ်ရပ်ပါဝင်သည် -
(က) ပုဒ်မ-၁၀၉ ပါ ပြဌာန်းချက်များနှင့်အညီ မြို့နယ်ကို အခြေခံ၍လည်းကောင်း၊ လူဦးရေကို အခြေခံ၍လည်းကောင်း ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်သည့် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ် နှင့် တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်က အမည်စာရင်းတင်သွင်းသော တပ်မတော်သား လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များဖြင့် ဖွဲ့စည်းသည့် ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်၊
(ခ) ပုဒ်မ-၁၄၁ ပါ ပြဌာန်းချက်များနှင့်အညီ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးများနှင့် ပြည်နယ်များမှ ဦးရေတူညီစွာ ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်သည့် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များနှင့် တပ်မတော် ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်က အမည်စာရင်းတင်သွင်းသော တပ်မတော်သား လွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များဖြင့် ဖွဲ့စည်းသည့် အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၇၄)
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
- English1) Parliament shall consist of 25 Members who shall be elected by the People by universal, equal, secret and direct suffrage according to the system of proportional representation.
... (Art. 46) - German1) Der Landtag besteht aus 25 Abgeordneten, die vom Volke im Wege des allgemeinen, gleichen, geheimen und direkten Stimmrechtes nach dem Verhältniswahlsystem gewählt werden.
... (Art. 46)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Chamber of Deputies is composed of representatives of the people, elected in each State, Territory and the Federal District by a proportional system.
§1°. The total number of Deputies, as well as the representation of each State and the Federal District, shall be established by complementary law in proportion to the population. The necessary adjustments shall be made in the year prior to the elections, so that none of the units of the Federation has fewer than eight nor more than seventy Deputies.
§2°. Each territory shall elect four Deputies. (Art. 45) - PortugueseA Câmara dos Deputados compõe-se de representantes do povo, eleitos, pelo sistema proporcional, em cada Estado, em cada Território e no Distrito Federal.
§ 1º O número total de Deputados, bem como a representação por Estado e pelo Distrito Federal, será estabelecido por lei complementar, proporcionalmente à população, procedendo-se aos ajustes necessários, no ano anterior às eleições, para que nenhuma daquelas unidades da Federação tenha menos de oito ou mais de setenta Deputados.
§ 2º Cada Território elegerá quatro Deputados. (Art. 45)