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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
- EnglishAlthingi shall be composed of 63 members elected by the people by secret ballot on the basis of proportional representation for a term of four years.
… (Art. 31) - IcelandicÁ Alþingi eiga sæti 63 þjóðkjörnir þingmenn, kosnir leynilegri hlutbundinni kosningu til fjögurra ára.
… (31. gr.)
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
- English
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Chapter, the House of Representatives shall consist of such number of members, being an odd number and divisible by the number of electoral divisions, as Parliament shall from time to time by law determine. Such members shall be elected in the manner provided by or under any law for the time being in force in Malta in equal proportions from the electoral divisions referred to in article 56 of this Constitution, each division returning such number of members, being not less than five and not more than seven as Parliament shall from time to time by law determine; and such members shall be known as "Members of Parliament"
... (Art. 52) - Maltese
(1) Bla ħsara għad-disposizzjonijiet ta’ dan il-Kapitolu, il-Kamra tad-Deputati tkun magħmula minn dak in-numru ta’ membri, li jkun numru fard u li jkun diviżibbli bin-numru tad-distretti elettorali, li l-Parlament jista’ minn żmien għal żmien b’liġi jistabbilixxi. Dawk il-membri jiġu eletti bil-mod provdut minn jew skont xi liġi li għal dak iż-żmien tkun isseħħ f’Malta bi proporzjonijiet indaqs mid-distretti elettorali msemmija fl-artikolu 56 ta’ din il-Kostituzzjoni, billi kull distrett jeleġġi dak in-numru ta’ membri, li ma jkunx inqas minn ħamsa u mhux iktar minn sebgħa kif il-Parlament għandu minn żmien għal żmien jistabbilixxi; u dawk il-membri jkunu magħrufa bħala "Membri tal-Parlament"
... (Art. 52)
Legislature
- EnglishEvery citizen who is not disqualified by the provisions under this Constitution or the provisions of the election law shall have the right to stand for election to any Hluttaw. (Sec. 395)
- Burmeseဤဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေပါ ပြဌာန်းချက်များအရသော်လည်းကောင်း၊ ရွေးကောက် တင်မြှောက်ခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေပါပြဌာန်းချက်များအရသော်လည်းကောင်း၊ အရည်အချင်း ပျက်ယွင်းသူ မဟုတ်ပါက နိုင်ငံသားတိုင်းသည် လွှတ်တော်တစ်ရပ်ရပ်သို့ ရွေးကောက် တင်မြှောက်ခံပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၉၅)
Legislature
- English
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, every Senatorial district or Federal constituency established in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Chapter9 shall return a member who shall be directly elected to the Senate or the House of Representatives in such manner as may be prescribed by an act of the National Assembly.
… (Sec. 77)
Legislature
- English
The chamber of deputies represents the country. It exercises the legislative power.
… (Art. 62)
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)
Legislature
- EnglishA person shall be qualified to be a candidate for election as a Representative if at the time of the election that person
a. is a citizen of the Republic;
b. has attained the age of twenty-five years;
c. has not been, on or after the date of the coming into operation of this Constitution, convicted of an offence involving dishonesty or moral turpitude or is not under any disqualification imposed by a competent court for any electoral offence;
d. is not suffering from a mental disease incapacitating such person from acting as a Representative. (Art. 64) - GreekΠας τις δικαούται να υποβάλει υποψηφιότητα βουλευτού, εφόσον κατά τον χρόνον της εκλογής:
(α) είναι πολίτης της Δημοκρατίας,
(β) έχει συμπληρώσει το εικοστόν πέμπτον έτος της ηλικίας αυτού,
(γ) δεν έχει καταδικασθεί κατά την ημέραν της ενάρξεως ισχύος του Συντάγματος ή μετ΄ αυτήν δι’ αδίκημα ατιμωτικόν ή ηθικής αισχρότητος ή δεν έχει στερηθεί της εκλογιμότητος κατόπιν αποφάσεως αρμοδίου δικαστηρίου λόγω οιουδήποτε εκλογικού αδικήματος, και
(δ) δεν πάσχει εκ διανοητικής νόσου καθιστώσης αυτό ανίκανον να ασκήσει τα καθήκοντά του ως βουλευτού. (Αρθρον 64) - TurkishBir kişi, seçim anında temsilci olarak seçilmek için aday olmaya hak person
a.Cumhuriyet vatandaşıdır;
b.yirmi beş yaşını doldurmuş;
c.bu Anayasa'nın yürürlüğe girdiği tarihte veya sonrasında, sahtekarlık veya ahlaki kargaşa içeren bir suçtan hüküm giymemiş veya herhangi bir seçim suçu için yetkili bir mahkeme tarafından dayatılan herhangi bir diskalifiye kapsamında değildir;
d.bu kişiyi Temsilci olarak hareket etmekten aciz bırakan bir zihinsel hastalıktan muzdarip değildir. (Madde 64)