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Political Rights and Association
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All citizens have the right to form associations and societies [sociétés] to exercise collectively their rights and their political, economic, social or cultural activities.
… (Art. 10) - French…
Tous les citoyens ont le droit de former des associations et des sociétés pour exercer collectivement leurs droits et leurs activités politiques, économiques, sociales ou culturelles.
… (Art. 10)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishAll citizens of Latvia who have the right to vote in elections of the Saeima may participate in national referendums. (Art. 80)
- LatvianTautas nobalsošanā var piedalīties visi Latvijas pilsoņi, kuriem ir balsstiesība Saeimas vēlēšanās. (Art. 80)
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།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༧༽
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishSuffrage is universal and equal for all Rwandans.
All Rwandans, both men and women, fulfilling the requirements provided for by law, have the right to vote and to be elected.
… (Art. 2) - KinyarwandaItora ni uburenganzira bw’Abanyarwanda bose ku buryo bungana.
Abanyarwanda bose, baba ab’igitsina gore cyangwa ab’igitsina gabo, bujuje ibyangombwa bisabwa n’amategeko bafite uburenganzira bwo gutora no gutorwa.
… (Ingingo ya 2) - FrenchLe suffrage est universel et égal pour tous les Rwandais.
Tous les Rwandais, hommes et femmes, remplissant les conditions légales, ont le droit de vote et d’éligibilité.
… (Art. 2)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishAll persons have the right to form associations, for any purpose whatsoever, provided they do not form an association which the law has declared unlawful. (Art. 39)
- SpanishTodas las personas tienen el derecho de asociarse, cualquiera sea el objeto que persigan, siempre que no constituyan una asociación ilícita declarada por la ley. (Art. 39)
Political Rights and Association
- English
In the Republic of Uzbekistan, public associations are recognized as trade unions, political parties, scientific societies, women’s, veterans’ and youth leagues and persons with disabilities, professional associations, mass movements and other organizations of citizens.
... (Art. 70) - Uzbek
O‘zbekiston Respublikasida kasaba uyushmalari, siyosiy partiyalar, olimlarning jamiyatlari, xotin-qizlar tashkilotlari, faxriylar, yoshlar va nogironligi bo‘lgan shaxslar tashkilotlari, ijodiy uyushmalar, ommaviy harakatlar hamda fuqarolarning boshqa birlashmalari jamoat birlashmalari sifatida e’tirof etiladi.
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Political Rights and Association
- English(1) Every woman has full and equal dignity of the person with men and this includes equal opportunities in political, economic and social activities.
… (Sec. 80)
Political Rights and Association
- English1. Citizens shall have the right to form associations freely and without dependence on any authorization, so long as they are not contrary to penal law or do not undermine the Constitution and national independence.
… (Art. 35) - Portuguese1. Os cidadãos têm o direito de, livremente e sem dependência de qualquer autorização, constituir associações, desde que não sejam contrárias à lei penal ou não ponham em causa a Constituição e a independência nacional.
… (Art. 35)
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 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)