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Political Rights and Association
- English1. Every citizen who has attained the age of eighteen years shall have the right to vote and stand for election for any state or local authority body and to serve their terms of office or mandates, under the terms of the Constitution and the law.
2. The right to vote may not be restricted except with regard to the incapacities and ineligibilities prescribed in the Constitution.
3. The exercise of the right to vote shall be personal and non-transferable and shall be a civic duty. (Art. 54) - Portuguese1. Todo o cidadão, maior de dezoito anos, tem o direito de votar e ser eleito para qualquer órgão electivo do Estado e do poder local e de desempenhar os seus cargos ou mandatos, nos termos da Constituição e da lei.
2. A capacidade eleitoral passiva não pode ser limitada senão em virtude das incapacidades e inelegibilidades previstas na Constituição.
3. O exercício de direito de sufrágio é pessoal e intransmissível e constitui um dever de cidadania. (Art. 54)
Political Rights and Association
- English1. Every citizen who has attained the age of eighteen years has the right to vote, subject to the incapacities provided for in the general law.
... (Art. 49) - Portuguese1. Têm direito de sufrágio todos os cidadãos maiores de dezoito anos, ressalvadas as incapacidades previstas na lei geral.
... (Art. 49)
Political Rights and Association
- English... Equality of the rights of women and men shall be ensured by providing women with opportunities equal to those of men in public, political and cultural activities, in obtaining education and in professional training, in work and remuneration for it; by taking special measures for the protection of work and health of women; by establishing pension privileges; by creating conditions that make it possible for women to combine work and motherhood; by adopting legal protection, material and moral support of motherhood and childhood, including the provision of paid leave and other privileges to pregnant women and mothers. (Art. 24)
- Ukrainian... Рівність прав жінки і чоловіка забезпечується: наданням жінкам рівних з чоловіками можливостей у громадсько-політичній і культурній діяльності, у здобутті освіти і професійній підготовці, у праці та винагороді за неї; спеціальними заходами щодо охорони праці і здоров'я жінок, встановленням пенсійних пільг; створенням умов, які дають жінкам можливість поєднувати працю з материнством; правовим захистом, матеріальною і моральною підтримкою материнства і дитинства, включаючи надання оплачуваних відпусток та інших пільг вагітним жінкам і матерям. (Стаття 24)
Political Rights and Association
- English
1. Under this Constitution, the general will of the people shall be the basis of government and it shall be expressed through periodic elections.
2. A person shall have the right to vote by direct adult suffrage through secret ballot at an election if the person is:
a. A Bhutanese citizen as evidenced by a Citizenship Card;
b. Not less than eighteen years of age;
c. Registered in the civil registry of that constituency for not less than one year, prior to the date of the election; and
d. Not otherwise disqualified from voting under any law in force in Bhutan.
… (Art. 23) - Dzongkha
༡) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདིའི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ གཞུང་གི་གཞི་གནས་འདི་ མི་སེར་སྤྱིར་གྱི་བསམ་དོན་ཨིནམ་དང་ བསམ་དོན་ འདི་ དུས་མཚམས་ཅན་གྱི་བཙག་འཐུའི་ཐོག་ལས་གསལ་སྟོན་འབད་དགོ།
༢) མི་ཅིག་གིས་ བཙག་འཐུ་ཅིག་ནང་གསང་བའི་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་ཐོག་ལས་ ན་ལོན་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་ཐད་ ཀར་བསྐྱུར་ནིའི་ ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ཡང་ གལ་སྲིད་མི་ངོ་འདི།
ཀ༽ མི་ཁུངས་ལག་ཁྱེར་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་བྱེད་སྟོན་ནི་ཡོད་པའི་འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་དང།
ཁ༽ སྐྱེས་ལོ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་ལས་མ་ཆུང་བ།
ག༽ བཙག་འཐུའི་ཚེས་གྲངས་ཀྱི་སྔ་གོང་ལས་ལོ་ངོ་གཅིག་ལས་མ་ཉུང་བར་ འདེམས་ཁོངས་དེའི་ ཞི་བའི་ཐོ་བཀོད་ མ་ཡིག་ནང་བཀོད་དེ་ཡོད་པ། དང་།
ང་༽ འབྲུག་གི་ཁྱབ་དབང་ཡོད་པའི་ཁྲིམས་གང་རུང་ཅིག་གི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ ཚོགས་རྒྱན་བསྐྱུར་ནིའི་ཁྱདཚད་ ལས་ མ་འགལ་བ།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༢༣༽
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishCitizens shall be guaranteed the right to freely form societies, political parties, and associations provided that the aims and activities thereof are not contrary to the Constitution and laws.
... (Art. 35) - LithuanianPiliečiams laiduojama teisė laisvai vienytis į bendrijas, politines partijas ar asociacijas, jei šių tikslai ir veikla nėra priešingi Konstitucijai ir įstatymams.
… (35 straipsnis)
Political Rights and Association
- English…The sovereign People of Senegal, …
Proclaim:
…
- the access of all the citizens, without discrimination, to the exercise of power at all its levels,
… (Preamble) - French... Le peuple du Sénégal souverain, …
Proclame :
…
- l’accès de tous les citoyens, sans discrimination, à l’exercice du pouvoir à tous les niveaux ;
… (Préambule)
Political Rights and Association
- English(1) Every citizen who—
(a) has attained the age of eighteen years on the qualifying date;
(b) is resident in a constituency on such qualifying date or, if not so resident, is an absent voter; and
(c) is, under the provisions of any law relating to elections, registered in the electoral roll as an elector in the constituency in which he resides on the qualifying date,
is entitled to vote in that constituency in any election to the House of Representatives or the Legislative Assembly unless he is disqualified under Clause (3) or under any law relating to offences committed in connection with elections; but no person shall in the same election vote in more than one constituency. (Art. 119) - Malay(1) Tiap-tiap warganegara yang—
(a) telah mencapai umur lapan belas tahun pada tarikh kelayakan;
(b) bermastautin di dalam sesuatu bahagian pilihan raya pada tarikh kelayakan yang sedemikian atau, jika tidak bermastautin sedemikian, ialah seorang pengundi tidak hadir; dan
(c) didaftarkan, di bawah peruntukan mana-mana undang-undang yang berhubungan dengan pilihan raya, dalam daftar pemilih sebagai pemilih dalam bahagian pilihan raya tempat dia bermastautin pada tarikh kelayakan,
berhak mengundi di dalam bahagian pilihan raya itu dalam mana-mana pilihan raya ke Dewan Rakyat atau Dewan Undangan melainkan jika dia hilang kelayakan di bawah Fasal (3) atau di bawah mana-mana undang-undang yang berhubungan dengan kesalahan yang dilakukan berkaitan dengan pilihan raya; tetapi tiada seorang pun boleh mengundi dalam pilihan raya yang sama di dalam lebih daripada satu bahagian pilihan raya. (Perkara 119)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishWe the people of Solomon Islands, …
AGREE AND PLEDGE that -
(a) our government shall be based on democratic principles of universal suffrage and the responsibility of executive authorities to elected assemblies;
… (Preamble)
Political Rights and Association
- English
(1) The Federation has powers of legislation and execution in the following matters:
7. … the right of association and assembly;
… (Art. 10) - German
(1) Bundessache ist die Gesetzgebung und die Vollziehung in folgenden Angelegenheiten:
7. … Vereins- und Versammlungsrecht;
… (Art. 10)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishEvery citizen is a member of the sovereignty of the Nation; as such he is a voter and eligible for election in the cases and in accordance with the procedure which will be set forth. … (Art. 77)
- SpanishTodo ciudadano es miembro de la soberanía de la Nación; como tal es elector y elegible en los casos y formas que se designarán. … (Art. 77)