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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
- English1. All citizens shall have the right to freely associate with one another without requiring any administrative authorisation, on condition that such associations are organised on the basis of democratic principles, under the terms of the law.
… (Art. 48) - Portuguese1. Os cidadãos têm o direito de, livremente e sem dependência de qualquer autorização administrativa, constituir associações, desde que estas se organizem com base em princípios democráticos, nos termos da lei.
… (Art. 48)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishEvery citizen of age and working ability of the Republic of Serbia shall have the right to vote and be elected.
Suffrage shall be universal and equal for all, the elections shall be free and direct and voting is carried out by secret ballot in person.
Election right shall be protected by the law and in accordance with the law. (Art. 52) - Serbian CyrillicСваки пунолетан, пословно способан држављанин Републике Србије има право да бира и да буде биран.
Изборно право је опште и једнако, избори су слободни и непосредни, а гласање је тајно и лично.
Изборно право ужива правну заштиту у складу са законом. (Члан 52)
Political Rights and Association
- English(1) The people have the inalienable right to choose their public officials and to dismiss them.
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(3) Universal adult suffrage is guaranteed with regard to the election of public officials.
… (Art. 15) - Japanese1 公務員を選定し、及びこれを罷免することは、国民固有の権利である。
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3 公務員の選挙については、成年者による普通選挙を保障する。
... (第15条)
Political Rights and Association
- English
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)
- French
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
- EnglishThe State shall promote equality with respect to the representation of women and men in publicly appointed or elected office, in its executive and decision-making institutions, and political parties and movements. As for candidacies in multi-person elections, their participation shall be respected by rotation of power and sequencing.
The State shall adopt affirmative action measures to guarantee the participation of discriminated sectors. (Art. 65) - SpanishEl Estado promoverá la representación paritaria de mujeres y hombres en los cargos de nominación o designación de la función pública, en sus instancias de dirección y decisión, y en los partidos y movimientos políticos. En las candidaturas a las elecciones pluripersonales se respetará su participación alternada y secuencial.
El Estado adoptará medidas de acción afirmativa para garantizar la participación de los sectores discriminados. (Art. 65)
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
… (Art. 69)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishThe right to nominate candidates shall be exercised in accordance with the legislation of Turkmenistan. (Art. 123)
- RussianПраво выдвижения кандидатов осуществляется в соответствии с законодательством Туркменистана. (Статья 123)
- TurkmenDalaşgärleri hödürlemek hukugy Türkmenistanyň kanunçylygyna laýyklykda amala aşyrylýar. (123-nji madda)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishThe voting for the election of the President of the Republic and of the Members of Parliament and at any Referendum shall be free, equal and by secret ballot. (Art. 93)
- Sinhalaජනරජයේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා සහ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරයන් තෝරා පත් කර ගැනීම සඳහා ද, ජනමතවිචාරණවල දී ද, ඡන්දය දීම නිදහස්ව ද, සමානව ද, රහසේ ද, විය යුත්තේ ය. (93 වැනි වගන්තිය)
Political Rights and Association
- English
(a) Every citizen shall have the right to elect and be elected in accord with the law.
... (Sec. 38) - Burmese
(က) နိုင်ငံသားတိုင်းသည် ဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ခွင့် နှင့် ရွေးကောက် တင်မြှောက်ခံပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသည်၊
... (ပုဒ်မ-၃၈)