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Legislature
- English1 1° Every citizen without distinction of sex who has reached the age of twenty-one years, and who is not placed under disability or incapacity by this Constitution or by law, shall be eligible for membership of Dáil Éireann.
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3° No law shall be enacted placing any citizen under disability or incapacity for membership of Dáil Éireann on the ground of sex or disqualifying any citizen or other person from voting at an election for members of Dáil Éireann on that ground.
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2 5° The members shall be elected on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.
… (Art. 16) - Irish Gaelic1 1° Gach saoránach, cibé acu fear nó bean, ag a bhfuil bliain agus fiche slán agus nach gcuirtear faoi mhíchumas nó faoi mhíthreoir leis an mBunreacht seo ná le dlí, tá sé intofa ar chomhaltas Dháil Éireann.
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3° Ní cead aon dlí a achtú a chuirfeadh saoránach ar bith, toisc gur fear nó toisc gur bean an saoránach sin, faoi mhíchumas nó faoi mhíthreoir maidir lena bheith ina chomhalta de Dháil Éireann nó a dhícháileodh saoránach ar bith nó duine ar bith eile, ar an bhforas céanna sin, ó bheith i dteideal vótála i dtoghchán comhaltaí do Dháil Éireann.
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2 5° Is de réir na hionadaíochta cionúire agus ar mhodh an aonghutha inaistrithe a thoghfar na comhaltaí.
… (Airteagal 16)
Legislature
- English
The organization and the functioning of the National People’s Assembly and of the Council of the Nation, as well as the functional relations between the Chambers of the Parliament and the Government, are established by an organic law
… (Art. 135) - Arabic
يـحدّد قانون عضويّ تنظيم المجلس الشّعبيّ الوطنيّ ومجلس الأمّة، وعملهما، وكذا العلاقات الوظيفيّة بينهما وبين الحكومة. يحدّد القانون ميزانيّة الغرفتين.
… (المادة 135) - French
L’organisation et le fonctionnement de l’Assemblée Populaire Nationale et du Conseil de la Nation, ainsi que les relations fonctionnelles entre les chambres du Parlement et le Gouvernement, sont fixés par une loi organique.
… (Art. 135)
Legislature
- EnglishThere shall be a National Assembly of Seychelles. (Art. 77)
Legislature
- English
To be [a] deputy it is required:
I. To be a Mexican citizen, by birth, in the exercise of their rights.
II. To be eighteen years of age on the day of the election;
III. To be of origin of the federative entity in which the election is held or resident [vecino] of it with effective residence of more than six months prior to the date of it.
In order to be able to figure on the lists of the plurinomial electoral circumscriptions as a candidate for deputy, it is required to be of origin of any of the federative entities that comprise the circumscription in which the election is held, or [to be] resident of it with effective residence of more than six months prior to the date that it is celebrated.
Residency is not lost for absence in the discharge of public offices [cargos] of popular election.
... (Art. 55) - Spanish
Para ser diputado se requiere:
I. Ser ciudadano mexicano, por nacimiento, en el ejercicio de sus derechos.
II. Tener dieciocho años cumplidos el día de la elección;
III. Ser originario de la entidad federativa en que se haga la elección o vecino de esta con residencia efectiva de más de seis meses anteriores a la fecha de ella.
Para poder figurar en las listas de las circunscripciones electorales plurinominales como candidato a diputado, se requiere ser originario de alguna de las entidades federativas que comprenda la circunscripción en la que se realice la elección, o vecino de ella con residencia efectiva de más de seis meses anteriores a la fecha en que la misma se celebre.
La vecindad no se pierde por ausencia en el desempeño de cargos públicos de elección popular.
... (Art. 55)
Legislature
- English
(1) The National Assembly shall be a permanent House.
(2) The National Assembly shall consist of fifty-nine members as follows: -
(a) Fifty six elected members consisting of at least three women, one Dalit and one from persons with disabilities or minorities, from each Province by an electoral college consisting of members of the Provincial Assembly, chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of the Rural Municipalities, and Mayors and Deputy-Mayors of the Municipalities, with different weightage of vote by members of the Provincial Assembly, chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of the Rural Municipalities, and Mayors and Deputy-Mayors of the Municipalities, as provided for in the federal law,
(b) Three members consisting of at least one woman nominated by the President on the recommendation of the Government of Nepal.
… (Art. 86) - Nepali
(१) राष्ट्रिय सभा एक स्थायी सदन हुनेछ ।
(२) राष्ट्रिय सभामा देहाय बमोजिमका उनान्साठी सदस्य रहनेछन्ः–
(क) प्रदेश सभाका सदस्य, गाउँपालिकाका अध्यक्ष र उपाध्यक्ष तथा नगरपालिकाका प्रमुख र उपप्रमुख रहेको निर्वाचकद्धट मण्डलद्वारा संघीय कानून बमोजिम प्रदेश सभाका सदस्य, गाउँपालिकाका अध्यक्ष र उपाध्यक्ष तथा नगरपालिकाका प्रमुख र उपप्रमुखको मतको भार फरक हुने गरी प्रत्येक प्रदेशबाट कम्तीमा तीन जना महिला, एक जना दलित र एक जना अपांगता भएका व्यक्ति वा अल्पसंख्यक सहित आठ जना गरी निर्वाचित छपन्न जना,
(ख) नेपाल सरकारको सिफारिसमा राष्ट्रपतिबाट मनोनीत कम्तीमा एक जना महिला सहित तीन जना ।
... (धारा ८६)