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Political Rights and Association
- English1. Freedom of association includes the right to form or take part in political associations and parties and through them to work jointly and democratically towards the formation of the popular will and the organisation of political power.
... (Art. 51) - Portuguese1. A liberdade de associação compreende o direito de constituir ou participar em associações e partidos políticos e de através deles concorrer democraticamente para a formação da vontade popular e a organização do poder político.
... (Art. 51)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishThe Sovereignty of the People shall be exercised and enjoyed in the following manner:–
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(e) the franchise shall be exercisable at the election of the President of the Republic and of the Members of Parliament and at every Referendum by every citizen who has attained the age of eighteen years and who, being qualified to be an elector as hereinafter provided, has his name entered in the register of electors. (Art. 4) - Sinhalaජනතාවගේ පරමාධිපත්යය ක්රියාත්මක වීම ද, භුක්ති විඳීම ද, මතු දැක්වෙන ආකාරයෙන් සිදුවන්නේ ය:–
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(ඉ) අටළොස් විය සම්පූර්ණ කර ඇත්තා වූ ද, මෙහි මින් මතු විධිවිධාන සලස්වා ඇති පරිදි ඡන්දහිමියකු වීමට සුදුසුකම් ලැබ තමාගේ නම ඡන්දහිමි නාමලේඛනයෙ ඇතුළත් කරනු ලැබ සිටින්නා වූ ද, සෑම පුරවැසියකු විසින් ම ජනරජයේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා තෝරා පත් කිරීමේ ඡන්ද විමසීමේ දී ද, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරයන් තෝරා පත් කිරීමේ මැතිවරණයේ දී ද, සෑම ජනමත විචාරණයක දී ද ඡන්ද බලය ක්රියාත්මක කළ හැකි විය යුතු වන්නේ ය. (4 වැනි වගන්තිය)
Political Rights and Association
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The State recognizes and guarantees, within the conditions established by the law, the freedom of movement [aller et venir], the freedom of association, of assembly, of procession [cortege], and of demonstration. (Art. 25)
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L'Etat reconnaît et garantit, dans les conditions fixées par la loi, la liberté d'aller et venir, la liberté d'association, de réunion, de cortège et de manifestation. (Art. 25)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishMen and women have equal civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights. The State will promote the conditions and will create the adequate mechanisms for, making equality real and effective, by leveling [allanando] the obstacles that prevent or hinder its exercise and facilitating the participation of women in all areas [ámbitos] of the national life. (Art. 48)
- SpanishEl hombre y la mujer tienen iguales derechos civiles, políticos, sociales, económicos y culturales. El Estado promoverá las condiciones y creará los mecanismos adecuados para que la igualdad sea real y efectiva, allanando los obstáculos que impidan o dificulten su ejercicio y facilitando la participación de la mujer en todos los ámbitos de la vida nacional. (Art. 48)
Political Rights and Association
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6. A Bhutanese citizen shall have the right to vote.
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12. A Bhutanese citizen shall have the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association, other than membership of associations that are harmful to the peace and unity of the country, and shall have the right not to be compelled to belong to any association.
… (Art. 7) - Dzongkha
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༦) འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཚོགས་རྒྱན་བསྐྱུར་ནིའི་ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད།
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༡༢) རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ཞི་བདེ་དང་ གཅིག་མཐུན་ལུ་གནོད་པའི་མཐུན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་འཐུས་མི་མ་ཡིན་པའི་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཞི་བདེ་འཛོམས་འདུའི་དལ་དབང་དང་ མཐུན་ཚོགས་དལ་དབང་གི་ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད་པའི་ཁར་ ནན་བསྐུལ་ཐོག་ལས་ མཐུན་ཚོགས་གང་རུང་ཅིག་གི་ཁོངས་སུ་ ཐབས་མེད་གཏོགས་བཅུག་ནི་མེད་པའི་ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད།
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Political Rights and Association
- English
Apart from those cases expressly provided for in other Articles of this Fundamental Law, the following are matters reserved to the law:
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f) The regime of association, the political parties,
… (Art. 69) - Spanish
Aparte de los casos expresamente previstos en otros artículos de esta Ley Fundamental, son materias reservadas a la ley las siguientes:
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f) El régimen de asociación, los partidos políticos
… (Art. 69) - French
Outre les cas expressément prévus dans d'autres articles de cette Loi fondamentale, les matières suivantes relèvent du domaine de la loi:
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f) Le régime des associations, des partis politiques
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Political Rights and Association
- English(1) Every citizen having attained the age of eighteen by or on the election day shall have the right to vote.
... (Art. 36) - Romanian(1) Cetăţenii au drept de vot de la vârsta de 18 ani, împliniţi până în ziua alegerilor inclusiv.
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Political Rights and Association
- EnglishThe qualification of electors of senators shall be in each State that which is prescribed by this Constitution, or by the Parliament, as the qualification for electors of members of the House of Representatives; but in the choosing of senators each elector shall vote only once. (Sec. 8)
Political Rights and Association
- English(1) The economically, socially or educationally backward women, Dalit, indigenous nationalities, Madhesi, Tharu, Muslims, backward classes, minorities, marginalized communities, persons with disabilities, gender and sexual minorities, farmers, labourers, oppressed or citizens of backward regions and indigent Khas Arya shall have the right to participate in the State bodies on the basis of principle of proportional inclusion.
… (Art. 42) - Nepali(१) आर्थिक, सामाजिक वा शैक्षिक दृष्टिले पछाडि परेका महिला, दलित, आदिवासी जनजाति, मधेशी, थारू, मुस्लिम, पिछडा वर्ग, अल्पसंख्यक, सीमान्तीकृत, अपांगता भएका व्यक्ति, लैंगिक तथा यौनिक अल्पसंख्यक, किसान, श्रमिक, उत्पीडित वा पिछडिएको क्षेत्रका नागरिक तथा आर्थिक रूपले विपन्न खस आर्यलाई समानुपातिक समावेशी सिद्धान्तका आधारमा राज्यका निकायमा सहभागिताको हक हुनेछ ।
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Political Rights and Association
- EnglishThe exercise of suffrage to elect the authorities of government and to participate in referendums is a right and a duty of the male and female citizens. The vote is personal, free, direct, and secret. No one may be obligated or coerced under any pretext in the exercise of his right to suffrage or to reveal his vote.
… (Art. 208) - SpanishEs un derecho y un deber de ciudadanas y ciudadanos el ejercicio del sufragio para elegir a las autoridades de gobierno y para participar en referendos. El voto es personal, libre, directo y secreto. Nadie puede ser obligado o coaccionado, bajo ningún pretexto, en el ejercicio de su derecho al sufragio ni a revelar su voto.
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