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Legislature
- EnglishSubject to the provisions of section 63 of this Constitution, a person shall be qualified to be appointed as a Senator if, and shall not be qualified to be so appointed unless, he-
(a) is a citizen of Belize of the age of eighteen years or upwards; and
(b) has resided in Belize for a period of at least one year immediately before the date of his appointment. (Sec. 62)
Legislature
- EnglishThe individual who becomes a candidate or appointed to the membership of the National Assembly, in addition to the completion of the conditions of the election, shall have the following qualifications:
1. Shall be a citizen of Afghanistan or shall have obtained citizenship of the state of Afghanistan at least ten years prior to candidacy date or appointment;
2. Shall not have been convicted of crimes against humanity, as well as a crime or deprivation from civil rights by a court;
3. Shall have completed twenty-five years of age on candidacy day for the House of People, and thirty-five years on candidacy day or appointment for the House of Elders. (Art. 85) - Dariشخصی كه به عضویت شورای ملی كاندید یا تعیین می شود، علاوه بر تكمیل شرایط انتخاب كنندگان واجد اوصاف ذیل می باشد:
١- تبعۀ افغانستان بوده یا حداقل ده سال قبل از تاریخ كاندید یا تعیین شدن تابعیت دولت افغانستان را كسب كرده باشد؛
٢- از طرف محكمه به ارتكاب جرایم ضد بشری، جنایت و یا حرمان از حقوق مدنی محكوم نشده باشد؛
٣- اعضای ولسی جرگه سن بیست و پنج سالگی را در روز كاندید شدن و اعضای مشرانو جرگه سن سی و پنج سالگی را در روز كاندید یا تعیین شدن تكمیل كرده باشند. (مادۀ ۸۵) - Pashtoهغه څوك چې د ملي شورى غړيتوب ته كانديد يا ټاكل كيږي، د ټاكونكو پر شرطونو سربيره، دا لاندې صفتونه هم ولري:
١- د افغانستان تبعه وي يا لږتر لږه د كانديديدو يا تعيين تر نېټې لس کاله پخوا يې د افغانستان د دولت تابعيت ترلاسه كړى وي؛
٢- د محكمې له خوا د بشري ضد جرمونو، او جنايت په ارتكاب او يا له مدني حقوقو څخه په محرومۍ محكوم شوى نه وي؛
٣- د ولسي جرگې غړيو د كانديديدو په ورځ د عمر پنځه ويشت کاله او د مشرانو جرگې غړيو د كانديديدو يا ټاكني په ورځ د عمر پنځه دېرش کاله بشپړ كړي وي. (۸۵ ماده)
Legislature
- English(1) The Senate shall consist of not more than thirty-one members (in this Constitution referred to as “Senators”) who shall be elected or appointed in accordance with this section.(2) Ten Senators, at least half of whom shall be female, shall be elected by the members of the House in such manner as may be prescribed by or under any law at their first meeting so as to represent a cross-section of the Swazi society.(3) Twenty Senators, at least eight of whom shall be female, shall be appointed by the King acting in his discretion after consultation with such bodies as the King may deem appropriate.(4) The Senators appointed in terms of subsection (3) shall be persons who, in the opinion of the King –(a) are able by reason of their special knowledge or practical experience to represent economic, social, cultural/traditional or marginalized interests not already adequately represented in Parliament; or(b) are by reason of their particular merit, able to contribute substantially to the good government and progressive development of Eswatini. (Sec. 94)
Legislature
- EnglishThe members of the Legislative Council shall be elected in general, free and direct elections in accordance with the provisions of the Elections Law, which shall determine the number of members, electoral constituencies and electoral system.
… (Art. 48) - Arabicينتخب أعضاء المجلس التشريعي انتخابا عاما حرا ومباشرا وفقا لأحكام قانون الانتخابات، ويحدد القانون عدد الأعضاء والدوائر الانتخابية والنظام الانتخابي.
… (المادّة 48)
Legislature
- EnglishSubject to the provisions of Article 42 of this Constitution, a person shall be qualified to be appointed as a Senator if, and shall not be qualified to be so appointed unless, he is a citizen of The Bahamas, of the age of thirty years or upwards and has ordinarily resided in The Bahamas for a period of nor less than one year immediately before the date of his appointment. (Art. 41)
Legislature
- English
1. The members of the Upper House shall be chosen by the members of the provincial councils and the members of the electoral colleges as referred to in paragraph 2 and in Article 132a, paragraph 3.
… (Art. 55) - Dutch
1. De leden van de Eerste Kamer worden gekozen door de leden van provinciale staten en de leden van de kiescolleges, bedoeld in het tweede lid en artikel 132a, derde lid.
… (Art. 55)
Legislature
- EnglishThe National Congress is composed of two branches [ramas]: the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Both participate in the formation of the laws in conformity with this Constitution and have the other attributions that the latter establishes. (Art. 46)
- SpanishEl Congreso Nacional se compone de dos ramas: la Cámara de Diputados y el Senado. Ambas concurren a la formación de las leyes en conformidad a esta Constitución y tienen las demás atribuciones que ella establece. (Art. 46)
Legislature
- English(1) The election of members of Parliament is by a multi-member open list system of proportional representation, under which each voter has one vote, with each vote being of equal value, in a single national electoral roll comprising all the registered voters.
… (Sec. 53) - iTaukei(1) Na lewenipalimedi era na digitaki ena iwiliwili ni mata dola raraba. Ena iwalewale ni veidigidigi qo, na levu na dabedabe e winitaka e dua na matapolitiki se ilawalawa ni matavakaturi, ena veiraurau kei na levu ni digidigi e rawata na matapolitiki se ilawalawa ni matavakaturi. Ena iwalewale ni veidigidigi qo na tamata taucoko e veidigidigi me dua na nona idigidigi, qo e kena ibalebale ni digidigi ni lewenivanua yadua e wiliki vakatautauvata ka na tu tale ga e dua na ivola ni veidigidigi vakamatanitu e tabaki kina o ira na lewenivanua taucoko era volayaca ni veidigidigi.
… (Sec. 53)
Legislature
- English
1. There shall be a Parliament for Bhutan in which all legislative powers under this Constitution are vested and which shall consist of the Druk Gyalpo, the National Council and the National Assembly.
…
3. The election of the members of Parliament shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Laws of the Kingdom.
… (Art. 10) - Dzongkha
༡) འབྲུག་ལུ་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཅིག་ཡོད་དགོ་མི་འདི་ལུ་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདིའི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ཁྲིམས་ བཟོའི་ དབང་ཚད་ཡོངས་རྫོགས་ཡོད་པའི་ཁར་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་དེ་ནང་འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་དང་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་བཅས་ཚུདཔ་ཨིན།
…
༣) སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གི་བཙག་འཐུ་འདི་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་བཙག་འཐུ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཁྲིམས་ ཀྱི་དགོངས་དོན་དང་འཁྲིལ་ དགོ།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༠༽
Legislature
- EnglishThe National Popular Assembly is the supreme legislative and political overseer, representing all Guinean citizens. It decides on all fundamental matters of internal and external policies. (Art. 76)
- PortugueseA Assembleia Nacional Popular é o supremo órgão legislativo e de fiscalização política representativo de todos os cidadãos guineenses. Ela decide sobre as questões fundamentais da política interna e externa do Estado. (Art. 76)