Political Constitution of the United Mexican States 1917, as amended to 2023
Political Parties
  • English
    ...
    The renewal of the Legislative and Executive powers will be realized by way of free, authentic and periodic elections, in accordance with the following bases:
    I. The political parties are entities of public interest; the law will determine the norms and requirements for their legal registration, the specific forms of their participation [intervención] in the electoral process and the rights, obligations and prerogatives that correspond to them. In the nomination [postulación] of their candidatures, the principle of parity of gender will be observed.
    The political parties have as [their] objective to promote the participation of the people in the democratic life, to promote the principle of parity of gender, to contribute to the integration of the organs of political representation and as citizen organizations, to make possible the access of them to the exercise of public power, in accordance with the programs, principles and ideas they postulate and by way of universal, free, secret and direct suffrage, as well as the regulations that the electoral law specifies [marque] to guarantee the parity of gender, in candidatures to the different offices of popular election. Only the citizens [masculine] and citizens [feminine] may form political parties and affiliate freely and individually with them;
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    II. The law will guarantee that the national political parties share [cuenten] in an equitable manner, the resources [elementos] that give rise to [llevar a cabo] their activities and will specify the rules to which the financing of the corresponding [propios] political parties and their electoral campaigns will be subject, which must guarantee that public resources prevail over those of private origin.
    … (Art. 41)
  • Spanish
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    La renovación de los poderes Legislativo y Ejecutivo se realizará mediante elecciones libres, auténticas y periódicas, conforme a las siguientes bases:
    I. Los partidos políticos son entidades de interés público; la ley determinará las normas y requisitos para su registro legal, las formas específicas de su intervención en el proceso electoral y los derechos, obligaciones y prerrogativas que les corresponden. En la postulación de sus candidaturas, se observará el principio de paridad de género.
    Los partidos políticos tienen como fin promover la participación del pueblo en la vida democrática, fomentar el principio de paridad de género, contribuir a la integración de los órganos de representación política, y como organizaciones ciudadanas, hacer possible su acceso al ejercicio del poder público, de acuerdo con los programas, principios e ideas que postulan y mediante el sufragio universal, libre, secreto y directo, así como con las reglas que marque la ley electoral para garantizar la paridad de género, en las candidaturas a los distintos cargos de elección popular. Sólo los ciudadanos y ciudadanas podrán formar partidos políticos y afiliarse libre e individualmente a ellos;
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    II. La ley garantizará que los partidos políticos nacionales cuenten de manera equitativa con elementos para llevar a cabo sus actividades y señalará las reglas a que se sujetará el financiamiento de los propios partidos y sus campañas electorales, debiendo garantizar que los recursos públicos prevalezcan sobre los de origen privado.
    … (Art. 41)
1

Political Constitution of the United Mexican States 1917, as amended to 2023 (English), available in HeinOnline World Constitutions Illustrated Library (2024).

2

Political Constitution of the United Mexican States 1917, as amended to 2023 (Spanish).

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3
Refer to the full provision of Art. 37 for other rules on the grounds of deprivation of nationality.
4
Refer to the full provision of Art. 123 for all measures regarding employment protection.
5

Refer to Sections A and B of Article 2 on rights of indigenous peoples.