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Legislature
- English1 Subject to the rights of the People and the Cantons, the Federal Assembly is the supreme authority of the Confederation.
2 The Federal Assembly comprises two chambers, the National Council and the Council of States; both chambers shall be of equal standing. (Art. 148) - French1 L’Assemblée fédérale est l’autorité suprême de la Confédération, sous réserve des droits du peuple et des cantons.
2 Elle se compose de deux Chambres, le Conseil national et le Conseil des Etats, dotées des mêmes compétences. (Art. 148) - German1 Die Bundesversammlung übt unter Vorbehalt der Rechte von Volk und Ständen die oberste Gewalt im Bund aus.
2 Die Bundesversammlung besteht aus zwei Kammern, dem Nationalrat und dem Ständerat; beide Kammern sind einander gleichgestellt. (Art. 148) - Italian1 L’Assemblea federale esercita il potere supremo nella Confederazione, fatti salvi i diritti del Popolo e dei Cantoni.
2 L’Assemblea federale consta di due Camere, il Consiglio nazionale e il Consiglio degli Stati; le due Camere sono dotate delle stesse competenze. (Art. 148)
Legislature
- EnglishA decree taken in the Council of Ministers establishes the number of members of the National Assembly, the distribution of the seats on the whole of the national territory as well as the divisions of the electoral circumscriptions. (Art. 70)
- FrenchUn décret pris en Conseil des Ministres fixe le nombre des membres de l’Assemblée Nationale, la répartition des sièges sur l’ensemble du territoire national ainsi que le découpage des circonscriptions électorales. (Art. 70)
Legislature
- English1. The National Assembly shall consist of at least 101 parliamentarians.
2. In the manner stipulated by the Electoral Code, places shall be assigned in the National Assembly for representatives of national minorities.
3. The National Assembly shall be elected by a proportional electoral contest. The Electoral Code shall guarantee the formation of a stable parliamentary majority. ... (Art. 89) - Armenian1. Ազգային ժողովը կազմված է առնվազն հարյուր մեկ պատգամավորից:
2. Ազգային ժողովում Ընտրական օրենսգրքով սահմանված կարգով տեղեր են հատկացվում ազգային փոքրամասնությունների ներկայացուցիչներին:
3. Ազգային ժողովն ընտրվում է համամասնական ընտրակարգով: Ընտրական օրենսգիրքը երաշխավորում է կայուն խորհրդարանական մեծամասնության ձևավորումը: ... (Հոդված 89)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Federal National Council (FNC) consists of forty members. The seats of the FNC are distributed to the member Emirates as follows:
• Abu Dhabi - 8 seats
• Dubai - 8 seats
• Sharjah - 6 seats
• Ras AI Khaimah - 6 seats
• Ajman - 4 seats
• Umm AI Quwain - 4 seats
• Fujairah - 4 seats (Art. 68) - Arabicﻳﺸﻜﻞ اﻟﻤﺠﻠﺲ اﻟﻮﻃﻨﻲ اﻻﺗ ﺤﺎدﻱ ﻣن أربعين ﻋﻀﻮﺍ وﻳ ﻮزﻉ ﻋﺪﺩ ﻣﻘﺎﻋﺪ اﻟﻤﺠﻠﺲ ﻋﻠﻰ اﻻ ﻣﺎراﺕ اﻷﻋﻀﺎﺀ ﻛﻤﺎ ﻳﻠﻲ:
• أﺑﻮﻇﺒﻲ 8 ﻣﻘﺎﻋﺪ
• دﺑـﻲ 8 ﻣﻘﺎﻋﺪ
• اﻟﺸ ﺎرﻗﺔ 6 ﻣﻘﺎﻋﺪ
• رأﺱ اﻟﺨﻴﻤﺔ 6 ﻣﻘﺎﻋﺪ
• ﻋﺠﻤﺎﻥ 4 ﻣﻘﺎﻋﺪ
• أﻡ اﻟﻘﻴﻮﻳﻦ 4 ﻣﻘﺎﻋﺪ
• اﻟﻔﺠﻴﺮﺓ 4 ﻣﻘﺎﻋﺪ (المادّة 68)
Legislature
- EnglishThere shall be a national legislature for Solomon Islands, which shall consist of a single chamber and shall be known as the National Parliament of Solomon Islands. (Sec. 46)
Legislature
- EnglishTo be elected Senator [it] is required to be a citizen with the right of suffrage, [to] have completed secondary education or the equivalent and [to] have attained thirty-five years of age [by] the day of the election. (Art. 50)
- SpanishPara ser elegido senador se requiere ser ciudadano con derecho a sufragio, haber cursado la enseñanza media o equivalente y tener cumplidos treinta y cinco años de edad el día de la elección. (Art. 50)
Legislature
- English(1) The authority and power to make laws for the State is vested in Parliament consisting of the members of Parliament and the President, and is exercised through the enactment of Bills passed by Parliament and assented to by the President.
… (Sec. 46) - iTaukei(1) Na kaukauwa ni buli lawa ni Matanitu sa vakatikori e na Palimedi era lewena na lewenipalimedi kei na Peresitedi, vakadonui ena lawa vakaturi e pasitaki ena Palimedi ka tokona na Peresitedi.
… (Sec. 46)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Parliament is composed of two Chambers, the Chamber of Representatives and the Chamber of Councilors.
… (Art. 60) - Arabicيتكون البرلمان من مجلسين، مجلس النواب ومجلس المستشارين؛
... (الفصل 60)
Legislature
- English
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3. A candidate for an elective office under this Constitution shall:
a. Be a Bhutanese citizen;
b. Be registered voter of that constituency;
c. Be a minimum of twenty-five years and maximum of sixty-five years of age at the time of filing the nomination;
d. Not receive money or any assistance from foreign sources, be it governmental, nongovernmental, private organizations or from private parties or individuals; and
e. Fulfil the necessary educational and other qualifications prescribed in the Electoral Laws.
4. A person shall be disqualified as a candidate or a member holding an elective office under this Constitution, if the person:
a. Is married to a person who is not a citizen of Bhutan;
… (Art. 23) - Dzongkha
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༣) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདིའི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ བཙག་འཐུ་ཅན་གྱི་ཡགི་ཚང་དོན་ལུ་ འདེམས་ངོ་གིས་འགྲུབ་དགོཔ་འདི་ཡང་།
ཀ༽ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཨིན་མི་ཅིག་དང་།
ཁ༽ འདེམས་ཁོངས་དེ་ནང་ ཚོགས་རྒྱན་སྐྱུར་མི་སྦེ་ཐོ་བཀོད་གྲུབ་པ།
ག༽ གདམ་ངོའི་ཞུ་ཡིག་བཙུགས་པའི་སྐབས་ དམའ་ཤོས་སྐྱེས་ལོ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་ལྔ་དང་ མཐོ་ཤོས་སྐྱེས་ལོ་ དྲུག་ཅུ་རེ་ལྔ་ལོན་པ།
ང་༽ གཞུང་ ཡང་ན་ གཞུང་མིན་ སྒེར་གྱི་ལས་ཚོགས་ ཡང་ཅིན་སྒེར་སྡེ་དང་ངོ་རྐྱང་ཚུ་ ག་ལས་ ཨིན་རུང་ ཕྱིའི་ འབྱུང་ཁུངས་ལས་དངུལ་རྐྱང་ ཡང་ན་ གྲོགས་རམ་གང་ཡང་མ་ལེན་པ།
ཅ༽ བཙག་འཐུ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཁྲིམས་ནང་ ཆེད་དུ་བཀོད་པའི་དགོས་མཁོའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་དང་ཁྱད་ཚད་གཞན་ཚུ་ཡོདཔ།
༤) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདིའི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་གྱི་འདེམས་ངོ་ཅིག་ ཡང་ན་ བཙག་འཐུ་ཅན་གྱི་ཡིག་ཚང་འཆང་བའི་ འཐུས་མི་ཅིག་ ཁྱད་ཚད་དང་མ་མཐུན་པའི་མི་ངོ་སྦེ་བརྩི་དགོཔ་དེ་ཡང་ གལ་སྲིད་མི་ངོ་འདི།
ཀ༽ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་མིན་མི་ཅིག་དང་གཉེན་དུ་བསྡོམས་པ།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༢༣༽
Legislature
- English1. The Parliament of Georgia is the supreme representative body of the country that exercises legislative power, defines the main directions of the country’s domestic and foreign policies, controls the activities of the Government within the scope established by the Constitution, and exercises other powers.
… (Art. 36) - Georgian1. საქართველოს პარლამენტი არის ქვეყნის უმაღლესი წარმომადგენლობითი ორგანო, რომელიც ახორციელებს საკანონმდებლო ხელისუფლებას, განსაზღვრავს ქვეყნის საშინაო და საგარეო პოლიტიკის ძირითად მიმართულებებს, კონსტიტუციით დადგენილ ფარგლებში კონტროლს უწევს მთავრობის საქმიანობას და ახორციელებს სხვა უფლებამოსილებებს.
… (მუხლი 36)