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Legislature
- English(1) Legislative power in relation to all Union Matters and also in relation to all other matters concerning Mainland Tanzania is hereby vested in Parliament.
… (Art. 64)
Legislature
- EnglishThe legislative power shall be vested in the National Assembly. (Art. 40)
- Korean입법권은 국회에 속한다. (제40조)
Legislature
- English(1) The Bundesrat shall consist of members of the Land governments, which appoint and recall them. Other members of those governments may serve as alternates.
… (Art. 51) - German(1) Der Bundesrat besteht aus Mitgliedern der Regierungen der Länder, die sie bestellen und abberufen. Sie können durch andere Mitglieder ihrer Regierungen vertreten werden.
… (Art. 51)
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
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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
- EnglishThe members of the Senate bear the title of Senator. They are elected by indirect universal suffrage by the departmental and municipal councilors.
… (Art. 133) - FrenchLes membres du Sénat portent le titre de sénateur. Ils sont élus au suffrage universel indirect par les conseillers départementaux et municipaux.
… (Art. 133)
Legislature
- EnglishThe legislative authority of the Republic derives from the people of Zambia and shall be exercised in a manner that protects this Constitution and promotes the democratic governance of the Republic. (Art. 61)
Legislature
- English(a) A person elected to be a member of the People’s Majlis shall be so qualified if he:
1. is a citizen of the Maldives;
2. is not a citizen of a foreign country;
3. is a Muslim and a follower of a Sunni school of Islam;
4. has attained the age of eighteen years; and
5. is of sound mind.
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(b) A person who has acquired Maldivian citizenship is qualified to be a member of the People’s Majlis five years after the acquisition of citizenship and is domiciled in the Maldives.
… (Art. 73) - Dhivehi(ހ) ރައްޔިތުންގެ މަޖިލީހުގެ މެންބަރުކަމަށް އިންތިހާބްކުރެވޭ މީހެއްގައި އަންނަނިވި ޝަރުތުތައް ފުރިހަމަވާންވާނެއެވެ.
1. ދިވެހިރައްޔިތަކަށްވުން
.2. ބޭރުޤައުމެއްގެ ރައްޔިތަކަށް ނުވުން.
3. މުސްލިމަކު ކަމުގައިވުމާއި، ސުންނަތް ޖަމާއަތުގެ މީހަކުކަމުގައިވުން.
4. އުމުރުން އަށާރަ އަހަރު ފުރިފައިވުން.
5. ބުއްދި ހަމައަށް ހުރި މީހަކުކަމުގައިވުން.
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(ށ) ބޭރުޤައުމެއްގެ ރައްޔިތަކު ދިވެހިރައްޔިތަކަށް ވެފައިވާ ނަމަ، އެ މީހަކަށް ރައްޔިތުންގެ މިޖިލީހުގެ މެންބަރުކަމަށް ކުރިމަތިލެވޭނީ، އެ މީހަކު ދިވެހިރައްޔިތަކަށްވީތާ ފަސް އަހަރު ފުރުމަށްފަހުގައެވެ. އަދި އެމީހަކީ ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގައި ދިރިއުޅެމުންދާ މީހަކު ކަމުގައި ވާންވާނެއެވެ.... (ޤާނޫނުއަސާސީގެ 73 ވަނަ މާއްދާ)
Legislature
- EnglishThe Saeima shall be composed of one hundred representatives of the people. (Art. 5)
- LatvianSaeima sastāv no simts tautas priekšstāvjiem. (Art. 5)
Legislature
- EnglishThe law determines the number of representatives that will make up the National Assembly of People's Power, in proportion to the number of inhabitants within the respective districts in which, for electoral purposes, the national territory is divided into.
The representatives on the National Assembly of People's Power and the delegates on the Municipal Assemblies of People's Power are elected through a vote of the electors that is free, equal, direct, and secret. The law regulates the procedure for their election. (Art. 209) - SpanishLa ley determina la cantidad de diputados que integran la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular y de delegados que componen las asambleas municipales del Poder Popular, en proporción al número de habitantes de las respectivas demarcaciones en que, a los efectos electorales, se divide el territorio nacional.
Los diputados a la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular y los delegados a las asambleas municipales del Poder Popular se eligen por el voto libre, igual, directo y secreto de los electores. La ley regula el procedimiento para su elección. (Art. 209)