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Political Parties
- English(1) The House of Representatives shall be composed of not more than two hundred and fifty members, unless otherwise fixed by law, who shall be elected from legislative districts apportioned among the provinces, cities, and the Metropolitan Manila area in accordance with the number of their respective inhabitants, and on the basis of a uniform and progressive ratio, and those who, as provided by law, shall be elected through a party-list system of registered national, regional, and sectoral parties or organizations.
(2) The party-list representatives shall constitute twenty per centum of the total number of representatives including those under the party list. For three consecutive terms after the ratification of this Constitution, one-half of the seats allocated to party-list representatives shall be filled, as provided by law, by selection or election from the labor, peasant, urban poor, indigenous cultural communities, women, youth, and such other sectors as may be provided by law, except the religious sector.
... (Art. VI, Sec. 5) - Filipino(1) Ang Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan ay dapat buuin ng hindi hihigit sa dalawang daan at limampung kagawad matangi kung magtakda ang batas ng naiiba, na dapat ihalal mula sa mga purok pangkapulungan na pinag-ayaw-ayaw sa mga lalawigan, mga lungsod at Metropolitan Manila Area ayon sa rami ng kinauukulang mga naninirahan, at batay sa magkakatulad at paunlad na pagdami, at yaong ayon sa itinatadhana ng batas ay dapat ihalal sa pamamagitan ng sistemang partilist ng rehistradong partido o organisasyong pambansa, panrehiyon, at pansektor.
(2) Ang kinatawang partilist ay dapat na binubuo ng dalawampung porsyento ng lahat ng mga kagawad ng Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan. Sa loob ng tatlong magkakasunod na taning ng panunungkulan pagkaraang maratipikahan ang Konstitusyong ito, ang kalahati sa mga pwestong nakalaan sa mga kinatawang partilist ay dapat punan, ayon sa itinatadhana ng batas, sa pamamagitan ng pagpili o paghahalal mula sa sektor ng mga manggagawa, magsasaka, mahirap na tagalungsod, mga katutubong pamayanang pangkalinangan, mga kababaihan, kabataan at sa iba pang mga sektor na maaaring itadhana ng batas, maliban sa sektor na panrelihiyon.
... (Art. VI, Seksyon 5)
Political Parties
- English
Political parties shall express the political will of various sections and groups of the population, and through their democratically elected representatives shall participate in the formation of state authority. Political parties, in accordance with the established procedure, shall submit to the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan or to the body authorised by it, public reports on the sources of financing their activity. (Art. 74)
- Uzbek
Siyosiy partiyalar turli ijtimoiy tabaqa va guruhlarning siyosiy irodasini ifodalaydilar va o‘zlarining demokratik yo‘l bilan saylab qo‘yilgan vakillari orqali davlat hokimiyatini tuzishda ishtirok etadilar. Siyosiy partiyalar o‘z faoliyatining moliyalashtirilishi manbalari haqida O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy Majlisining Qonunchilik palatasiga yoki u vakolat bergan organga belgilangan tartibda oshkora hisobotlar taqdim etadilar. (74-modda)
Political Parties
- English
The rights of the multi-ethnic people to be the masters of the country are exercised and ensured through the functioning of the political system with the Lao People's Revolutionary Party as its leading nucleus. (Art. 3)
- Lao
ສິດເປັນເຈົ້າປະເທດຊາດ ຂອງປະຊາຊົນບັນດາເຜົ່າ ໄດ້ຮັບການປະຕິບັດ ແລະ ຮັບປະກັນດ້ວຍການເຄື່ອນໄຫວຂອງລະບົບການເມືອງ ຊຶ່ງມີພັກປະຊາຊົນປະຕິວັດລາວເປັນແກນນໍາ. (ມາດຕາ 3)
Political Parties
- EnglishA person shall enjoy the liberty to unite and form a political party under the democratic regime of government with the King as Head of State, as provided by law.
The law under paragraph one shall at least contain provisions relating to the administration of a political party which must be transparent and accountable, provide party members opportunities to widely participate in defining policies and nominating candidates for election, and prescribe measures to ensure that the administration be carried out independently and free from manipulation or inducement of any person who is not a member of such party, as well as oversight measures to prevent members of a political party from committing any act which violates or contravenes laws relating to election. (Sec. 45) - Thaiบุคคลย่อมมีเสรีภาพในการรวมกันจัดตั้งพรรคการเมืองตามวิถีทางการปกครองระบอบประชาธิปไตยอันมีพระมหากษัตริย์ทรงเป็นประมุขตามที่กฎหมายบัญญัติ
กฎหมายตามวรรคหนึ่งอย่างน้อย ต้องมีบทบัญญัติเกี่ยวกับการบริหารพรรคการเมือง ซึ่งต้องกําหนดให้เป็นไปโดยเปิดเผยและตรวจสอบได้ เปิดโอกาสให้สมาชิกมีส่วนร่วมอย่างกว้างขวางในการกําหนดนโยบายและการส่งผู้สมัครรับเลือกตั้ง และกําหนดมาตรการให้สามารถดําเนินการโดยอิสระไม่ถูกครอบงําหรือชี้นําโดยบุคคลซึ่งมิได้เป็นสมาชิกของพรรคการเมืองนั้น รวมทั้งมาตรการกํากับดูแลมิให้สมาชิกของพรรคการเมืองกระทําการอันเป็นการฝ่าฝืนหรือไม่ปฏิบัติตามกฎหมายเกี่ยวกับการเลือกตั้ง (มาตรา ๔๕)
Political Parties
- English
1. The Party shall be established as set out in the paragraph 10 of the Article Sixteen of the Constitution, and shall formulate and conduct nation-wide policy.
2. The Party shall be formed by associating uniting at least one percent of Mongolian citizens, eligible to vote in the election.
3. Internal organization of the party shall be in compliance with the democratic principles, and its capital and revenue sources and spending shall be transparent to public. The Party's organization, operational procedure, funding, and the terms of state funding support shall be determined by law. (Art. 19-1) - Mongolian
1. Нам Үндсэн хуулийн арван зургадугаар зүйлийн 10-т заасны дагуу байгуулагдаж, улсын хэмжээний бодлого дэвшүүлж ажиллана.
2. Намыг Монгол Улсын сонгуулийн эрх бүхий иргэдийн нэг хувиас доошгүй тооны иргэн эвлэлдэн нэгдэж байгуулна.
3. Намын дотоод зохион байгуулалт ардчилсан зарчимд нийцсэн, хөрөнгө, орлогын эх үүсвэр, зарцуулалт нь нийтэд ил тод байна. Намын зохион байгуулалт, үйл ажиллагааны журам, санхүүжилт, төрөөс санхүүгийн дэмжлэг үзүүлэх нөхцөлийг хуулиар тогтооно. (Арван ес1 дүгээр зүйл)
Political Parties
- English…
4. Political parties shall participate in the formation and exercise of the political will of the people. The activities of political parties shall be based on the principles of freedom, equality, transparency, and intra-party democracy. (Art. 3) - Georgian…
4. პოლიტიკური პარტიები მონაწილეობენ ხალხის პოლიტიკური ნების ჩამოყალიბებასა და განხორციელებაში. პოლიტიკური პარტიების საქმიანობა ეფუძნება მათი თავისუფლების, თანასწორობის, გამჭვირვალობის და შიდაპარტიული დემოკრატიის პრინციპებს. (მუხლი 3)
Political Parties
- EnglishA political party shall, in accord with the law, have the right in the Union to :
(a) organize freely;
(b) participate and compete in the elections. (Sec. 406) - Burmeseနိုင်ငံရေးပါတီတစ်ရပ်သည် နိုင်ငံတော်အတွင်း ဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ -
(က) လွတ်လပ်စွာ စည်းရုံးခွင့်ရှိသည်၊
(ခ) ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများတွင် ပါဝင်ယှဉ်ပြိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၄၀၆)
Political Parties
- English…
2. Every citizen has the right to establish and to participate in political parties.
3. The establishment and organisation of political parties shall be regulated by law. (Sec. 46) - Tetum…
2. Sidadaun hotu-hotu iha direitu atu halo no partisipa iha partidu polítiku sira.
3. Konstituisaun no organizasaun ba partidu polítiku sira lei maka regula. (Art. 46) - Portuguese…
2. Todo o cidadão tem o direito de constituir e de participar em partidos políticos.
3. A constituição e a organização dos partidos políticos são reguladas por lei. (Art. 46)
Political Parties
- English
1. Political parties shall ensure that national interests prevail over all other interests and, for this purpose, shall provide choices based on the values and aspirations of the people for responsible and good governance.
2. Political parties shall promote national unity and progressive economic development and strive to ensure the well-being of the nation.
3. Candidates and political parties shall not resort to regionalism, ethnicity and religion to incite voters for electoral gain.
4. A political party shall be registered by the Election Commission on its satisfying the qualifications and requirements set out hereinafter, that:
(a) Its members shall be Bhutanese citizens and not otherwise disqualified under this Constitution;
(b) Its membership is not based on region, sex, language, religion or social origin;
(c) It is broad-based with cross-national membership and support and is committed to national cohesion and stability;
(d) It does not accept money or any assistance other than those contributions made by its registered members, and the amount or value shall be fixed by the Election Commission;
(e) It does not receive money or any assistance from foreign sources, be it governmental, non-governmental, private organizations or from private parties or individuals;
(f) Its members shall bear true faith and allegiance to this Constitution and uphold the sovereignty, territorial integrity, security and unity of the Kingdom;
(g) It is established for the advancement of democracy and for the social, economic and political growth of Bhutan; and
(h) It has not been dissolved earlier under the provisions of section 11 of this Article.
... (Art. 15) - Dzongkha
༡) སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་མཐའ་དོན་འདི་ མཐའ་དོན་གཞན་ཆ་མཉམ་ལས་ ལྷག་སྟེ་ ཁྱབ་ཆེཝ་ངེས་གཏན་ བཟོ་ནི་དང་ དེའི་དོན་ལུ་ཁྱད་ཆོས་དང་མི་སེར་གྱི་རེ་འདོད་བསྐྱེད་ མི་ལུ་གཞི་བཞག་པའི་འགན་ཁུར་ཅན་དང་ གཞུང་སྐྱོང་ ལེགས་ལྡན་གྱི་གདམ་ཁ་བྱིན་དགོ།
༢) སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་གཅིག་མཐུན་དང་ཡར་འཕེལ་ཅན་གྱི་དཔལ་འབྱོར་ ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནི་དང་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ངེས་གཏན་བཟོ་ནིའི་དོན་གཉེར་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
༣) འདེམས་ངོ་དང་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ བཙག་འཐུའི་ཁེ་འབབ་དོན་ལུ་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་དང་ མི་རིགས་ ཆོས་ལུགས་ཚུ་ ལུ་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ ཚོགས་རྒྱན་སྐྱུར་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་རྒྱུད་བསྐུལ་འབད་ནི་མེད།
༤) གཤམ་གསལ་བཀོད་དེ་ཡོད་པའི་ཁྱད་ཚད་དང་དགོས་མཁོ་ཚུ་ལུ་ བཙག་འཐུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ ངེས་ཤེས་འདྲོངས་ ཞིནམ་ལས་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ཅིག་ཐོ་ཡིག་བཀོད་དགོཔ་འདི་ཡང་།
ཀ༽ དེའི་འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་ འབྲུག་གི་མི་ཁུངས་དང་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདིའི་ནང་གསལ་ ལྟར་གྱི་ ཁྱད་ཚད་ལས་ མ་འགལ་མི་ དགོཔ་དང་།
ཁ༽ དེ་གི་འཐུས་མིའི་འགན་དབང་འདི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ ཡང་ན་ ཕོ་མོ་ སྐད་ཡིག་ ཆོས་ལུགས་ མི་སྡེའི་འབྱུང་ཁུངས་ ཚུ་ལུ་གཞིར་འཛིན་མེདཔ།
ག༽ ཚོགས་པ་དེ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཕྱོགས་བསྡུས་ཀྱི་འཐུས་མིའི་འགན་དབང་དང་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་དང་བཅས་པའི་གཞི་རྒྱ་ཆེ་བའི་ཁར་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་གཅིག་གྱུར་དང་བརྟན་གཞིར་ བརྩོན་མི།
ང་༽ ཐོ་བཀོད་འབད་བའི་འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་བྱིན་པའི་ཞལ་འདེབས་མ་ཡིན་པའི་ཏི་རུ་གཞན་ ཡང་ན་ གྲོགས་རམ་གང་ཞིག་ ལེན་ནི་མེད་པའི་ཁར་ འདི་གི་གྲངས་འབོར་ ཡང་ན་ རིན་ཚད་འདི་ བཙག་འཐུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་གཏན་འཁེལ་བཟོ་དགོ།
ཅ༽ ཚོགས་པ་དེ་གིས་ གཞུང་ ཡང་ན་ གཞུང་མིན་ སྒེར་གྱི་ལས་ཚོགས་སམ་ སྒེར་སྡེ་དང་ངོ་རྐྱང་ཚུ་ག་ལས་ཨིན་རུང་ ཕྱིའི་འབྱུང་ཁུངས་ལས་དངུལ་རྐྱང་ ཡང་ན་ གྲོགས་རམ་གང་ཡང་མ་ལེན་པ།
ཆ༽ དེའི་འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་ལུ་ དམ་ཚིག་གཙང་མའི་གུས་བཀུར་ ཞུ་དགོཔ་དང་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ རང་བཙན་དང་ བདེ་སྲུང་ གཅིག་མཐུན་ གཅིག་སྒྲིལ་ གོང་ལུ་བཀུར་དགོ།
ཇ༽ ཚོགས་པ་དེ་ དམངས་གཙོའི་མདུན་སྐྱོད་དང་ འབྲུག་གི་མི་སྡེ་དང་དཔལ་འབྱོར་ སྲིད་དོན་འཕེལ་སྐྱེད་དོན་ལུ་ གཞི་འཛུགས་ཡོད་པ།
ཉ༽ ཚོགས་པ་དེ་ རྩ་ཚན་འདིའི་དོན་ཚན་༡༡ པའི་དགོངས་དོན་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ ཧེ་མ་ རྩ་གྲོལ་མ་བཏང་བ།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༥༽
Political Parties
- English...
2. Jordanians shall have the right to establish societies, unions and political parties provided their objective is lawful, their methods peaceful, and their by-laws not in violation of the provisions of the Constitution.
3. The law shall regulate the manner of the establishment of societies, unions and political parties and the control of their resources. (Art. 16) - Arabic…
2. للأردنيين حقّ تأليف الجمعيات والنقابات والأحزاب السياسية على أن تكون غايتها مشروعة ووسائلها سلمية وذات نظم لا تخالف أحكام الدستور.
3. ينظم القانون طريقة تأليف الجمعيات والنقابات والأحزاب السياسية ومراقبة مواردها. (المادّة 16)