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Political Parties
Panama
- EnglishIt is unlawful to form political parties based on sex, race, or religion, or that have as their purpose the destruction of the democratic form of government. (Art. 139)
- SpanishNo es lícita la formación de partidos que tengan por base el sexo, la raza, la religión o que tiendan a destruir la forma democrática de Gobierno. (Art. 139)
Political Parties
Portugal
- EnglishThe Assembly of the Republic has exclusive competence to legislate on the following matters:
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h) Political associations and parties;
… (Art. 164) - PortugueseÉ da exclusiva competência da Assembleia da República legislar sobre as seguintes matérias:
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h) Associações e partidos políticos;
… (Art. 164)
Political Parties
Burundi
- EnglishThe political parties may freely constitute themselves, in accordance with the law. They are registered [agréés] in accordance with the law. (Art. 76)
- KirundiImigarnbwe irashobora gushingwa ata nkomanzi hakurikijwe Ibwirizwa. Iyo migambwe yemererwa gukora hakurikijwe ibwirizwa. (Ingingo ya 76)
- FrenchLes partis politiques peuvent se constituer librement, conformément à la loi. Ils sont agréés conformément à la loi. (Art. 76)
Political Parties
Congo
- EnglishThe political parties are created freely around an ideal of peace, of national unity and of socio-economic development. They enjoy juridical [morale] personality.
The affiliation with a political party is free.
None may be the object of discriminatory measures by virtue of their affiliation with a political party or by the fact that they do not affiliate with any political formation.
It is prohibited to the political parties to identify themselves with a department, with a commune, with a district, with an urban or rural community, with a religion, with an ethnic group [ethnie] or with a clan.
The magistrates and the agents of the public force may not affiliate with political parties. (Art. 58) - FrenchLes partis politiques se créent librement autour d’un idéal de paix, d’unité nationale et de développement socio-économique. Ils jouissent de la personnalité morale.
L’adhésion à un parti politique est libre.
Nul ne peut faire l’objet de mesures discriminatoires en raison de son appartenance à un parti politique ou du fait qu’il n’appartient à aucune formation politique.
Il est interdit aux partis politiques de s’identifier à un département, à une commune, à un district, à une communauté urbaine ou rurale, à une religion, à une ethnie ou à un clan.
Les magistrats et les agents de la force publique ne peuvent adhérer aux partis politiques. (Art. 58)
Political Parties
Guinea-Bissau
- English1. In the Republic of Guinea-Bissau the establishment of political parties is allowed if in conformity with the Constitution and the law.
2. Political parties are equally responsible for [assuring] the organization and the expression of popular will and of political plurality.
3. Parties must respect the national independence and unity, the integrity of national territory and the pluralist democracy, and must follow the democratic rules in both their organization and functioning.
4. The formation of parties of regional or local nature, parties that sponsor racism or tribalism, and of parties that advocate the use of violent means to achieve its ends is forbidden.
5. The party’s name may not identify itself with any part of the national territory, nor display the name of a person, church, religion, confession or religious doctrine.
6. The highest leadership of parties must be composed of citizens of Guinean origin. (Art. 4) - Portuguese1 - Na República da Guiné-Bissau é livre a constituição de partidos políticos nos termos da Constituição e da lei.
2 - Os partidos políticos concorrem para a organização e expressão da vontade popular e do pluralismo político.
3 - Os partidos devem respeitar a independência e unidade nacional, a integridade territorial e a democracia pluralista, devendo na sua organização e funcionamento obedecer às regras democráticas.
4 - É proibida a formação de partidos de âmbito regional ou local, de partidos que fomentem o racismo ou tribalismo e de partidos que se proponham empregar meios violentos na prossecução dos seus fins.
5 - A denominação do partido não poderá identificar-se com qualquer parcela do território nacional, nem evocar nome de pessoa, igreja, religião, confissão ou doutrina religiosa.
6 - Os dirigentes máximos dos partidos devem ser cidadãos guineenses originários. (Art. 4)
Political Parties
Mozambique
- English1. The laws of constitutional revision have to respect:
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f. the pluralism of expression and of political organization, including political parties and the right of democratic opposition;
… (Art. 300) - Portuguese1. As leis de revisão constitucional têm de respeitar:
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f) o pluralismo de expressão e de organização política, incluindo partidos políticos e o direito de oposiçao democrática;
… (Art. 300)
Political Parties
Georgia
- English1. Citizens of Georgia shall have the right to form a political party and participate in its activities in accordance with the organic law.
2. Political party membership of persons enlisted in the Defence Forces or bodies responsible for state and public security, and those appointed as judges, shall cease.
3. The establishment and activity of a political party that aims to overthrow or forcibly change the constitutional order of Georgia, infringe on the independence or violate the territorial integrity of the country, or that propagates war or violence or incites national, ethnic, provincial, religious or social strife, shall be inadmissible. The establishment of a political party on a territorial principle shall be inadmissible.
4. The prohibition of a political party shall be admissible only by decision of the constitutional court, in cases defined by the organic law and in accordance with the established procedure. (Art. 23) - Georgian1. საქართველოს მოქალაქეებს უფლება აქვთ ორგანული კანონის შესაბამისად შექმნან პოლიტიკური პარტია და მონაწილეობა მიიღონ მის საქმიანობაში.
2. პირს, რომელიც ჩაირიცხება თავდაცვის ძალების ან სახელმწიფო ან საზოგადოებრივი უსაფრთხოების დაცვაზე პასუხისმგებელი ორგანოს შემადგენლობაში, განწესდება მოსამართლედ, უწყდება პოლიტიკური პარტიის წევრობა.
3. დაუშვებელია ისეთი პოლიტიკური პარტიის შექმნა და საქმიანობა, რომლის მიზანია საქართველოს კონსტიტუციური წყობილების დამხობა ან ძალადობით შეცვლა, ქვეყნის დამოუკიდებლობის ხელყოფა, ტერიტორიული მთლიანობის დარღვევა ან რომელიც ეწევა ომის ან ძალადობის პროპაგანდას, აღვივებს ეროვნულ, ეთნიკურ, კუთხურ, რელიგიურ ან სოციალურ შუღლს. დაუშვებელია პოლიტიკური პარტიის შექმნა ტერიტორიული ნიშნით.
4. პოლიტიკური პარტიის აკრძალვა შეიძლება მხოლოდ საკონსტიტუციო სასამართლოს გადაწყვეტილებით, ორგანული კანონით განსაზღვრულ შემთხვევებში და დადგენილი წესით. (მუხლი 23)
Political Parties
South Sudan
- EnglishThe exclusive legislative and executive powers of the National Government shall be as follows:
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31. Regulation of Political Parties;
… (Schedule (A): National Powers)
Political Parties
Myanmar
- EnglishIf a political party infringe one of the following stipulations, it shall have no right of continued existence:
(a) having been declared an unlawful association under the existing law;
(b) directly or indirectly contacting or abetting the insurgent group launching armed rebellion against the Union or the associations and persons determined by the Union to have committed terrorist acts or the association declared to be an unlawful association;
(c) directly or indirectly receiving and expending financial, material and other assistance from a foreign government, a religious association, other association or a person from a foreign country;
(d) abusing religion for political purpose. (Sec. 407) - Burmeseနိုင်ငံရေးပါတီတစ်ရပ်ရပ်သည် အောက်ပါအကြောင်းတစ်ခုခုနှင့်ငြိစွန်းလျှင် ဆက်လက် ရပ်တည်ပိုင်ခွင့် မရှိစေရ -
(က) တည်ဆဲဥပဒေအရ မတရားအသင်းအဖြစ် ကြေညာခံရခြင်း၊
(ခ) နိုင်ငံတော်အား လက်နက်စွဲကိုင်၍ တော်လှန်ပုန်ကန်နေသော သောင်းကျန်းသူ အဖွဲ့အစည်း သို့မဟုတ် အကြမ်းဖက်လုပ်ရပ်များကို ကျူးလွန်သည်ဟု နိုင်ငံတော်က သတ်မှတ်သော အဖွဲ့အစည်းနှင့် ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များ သို့မဟုတ် မတရားအသင်းအဖြစ် ကြေညာခံထားရသော အဖွဲ့အစည်းနှင့် တိုက်ရိုက်ဖြစ်စေ၊ သွယ်ဝိုက်၍ဖြစ်စေ ဆက်သွယ်ခြင်း သို့မဟုတ် အားပေးကူညီခြင်း၊
(ဂ) နိုင်ငံခြားတိုင်းပြည်တစ်ခုခုမှ အစိုးရ သို့မဟုတ် ဘာသာရေးအဖွဲ့အစည်း သို့မဟုတ် အခြားအဖွဲ့အစည်း တစ်ခုခု သို့မဟုတ် ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်တစ်ဦးဦးထံမှ ငွေကြေး၊ ပစ္စည်း၊ အခြားအထောက်အပံ့ကို တိုက်ရိုက်ဖြစ်စေ၊ သွယ်ဝိုက်၍ ဖြစ်စေ ရယူသုံးစွဲခြင်း၊
(ဃ) ဘာသာရေးကို နိုင်ငံရေးအတွက် အလွဲသုံးစားပြုခြင်း။ (ပုဒ်မ-၄၀၇)
Political Parties
Argentina
- English…
Actual equality of opportunities for men and women to elective and political party positions shall be guaranteed by means of positive actions in the regulation of political parties and in the electoral system. (Sec. 37) - Spanish…
La igualdad real de oportunidades entre varones y mujeres para el acceso a cargos electivos y partidarios se garantizará por acciones positivas en la regulación de los partidos políticos y en el régimen electoral. (Art. 37)