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Political Parties
- EnglishThe right to establish political parties shall be unrestricted.
The internal structure of political parties shall comply with fundamental constitutional democratic principles.
Political parties shall publicly disclose the sources of their finances and assets.
Political parties which, in their platforms or by violent action, intend to undermine the free democratic order or threaten the existence of the Republic of Croatia shall be deemed unconstitutional. The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia shall decide on such unconstitutionality.
The status and financing of political parties shall be regulated by law. (Art. 6) - CroatianOsnivanje političkih stranaka je slobodno.
Unutarnje ustrojstvo političkih stranaka mora biti sukladno temeljnim ustavnim demokratskim načelima.
Stranke moraju javno polagati račun o porijeklu svojih sredstava i imovine.
Protuustavne su političke stranke koje svojim programom ili nasilnim djelovanjem smjeraju podrivanju slobodnoga demokratskog poretka ili ugrožavaju opstojnost Republike Hrvatske. O protuustavnosti odlučuje Ustavni sud Republike Hrvatske.
Zakonom se uređuje položaj i financiranje političkih stranaka. (Članak 6)
Political Parties
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The Supreme Electoral Council has the following attributions:
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12) To cancel the juridical personality of the Political Parties that do not obtain at least four percent of the total of valid votes in the elections of general authorities, and to cancel or suspend the same in the other cases that the law on the matter regulates.
... (Art. 173) - Spanish
El Consejo Supremo Electoral tiene las siguientes atribuciones:
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12. Cancelar la personalidad jurídica de los Partidos Políticos que no obtengan al menos un cuatro por ciento del total de votos válidos en las elecciones de autoridades generales, y cancelar o suspender la misma en los otros casos que regula la ley de la materia.
... (Art. 173)
Political Parties
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2. Political parties exist in order to contribute to the organisation and expression of the will of the people, with respect for the principles of national independence, the unity of the state and political democracy. (Art. 10) - Portuguese…
2. Os partidos políticos concorrem para a organização e para a expressão da vontade popular, no respeito pelos princípios da independência nacional, da unidade do Estado e da democracia política. (Art. 10)
Political Parties
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1. Parliament shall, by law, establish a Public Election Fund into which shall be paid every year such amounts as the Election Commission may consider appropriate to fund registered political parties and their candidates during elections to the National Assembly and candidates to the National Council.
2. The payment out of the Public Election Fund shall be made by the Election Commission in a non-discriminatory manner to registered political parties and candidates in accordance with laws made by Parliament.
3. The Election Commission shall fix a ceiling for the total expenditure that may be incurred by political parties and their candidates taking part in elections to the National Assembly.
4. The Election Commission shall fix a ceiling for contribution offered voluntarily by any of its registered members to a political party subject to the provisions of the Election Fund Act.
5. The funding received by political parties and their candidates shall be subjected to scrutiny and auditing as called for by the Election Commission in accordance with laws made by Parliament or law in force. (Art. 16) - Dzongkha
༡) བཙག་འཐུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་ནང་ཐོ་བཀོད་གྲུབ་པའི་སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ཚུ་དང་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ ཚོགས་སྡེའི་འདེམས་ངོ་ཚུ་བཙག་འཐུའི་སྐབས་ ཚོགས་པ་དེ་ཚུ་གི་ འདེམས་ངོ་ཚུ་ལུ་མ་དངུལ་བྱིན་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ འོས་འཚམས་ ལྡན་པའི་འབོར་ཚད་ཀྱི་བལྟ་ཞིབ་ དང་བསྟུན་ཏེ་ ལོ་བསྟར་བཞིན་དུ་བཙུགས་པའི་མི་དམངས་བཙག་འཐུའི་མ་དངུལ་ཅིག་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ཁྲིམས་ཐོག་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་དགོ།
༢) བཙག་འཐུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ ཐོ་བཀོད་གྲུབ་པའི་སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ཚུ་དང་ འདེམས་ངོ་ཚུ་ལུ་ མི་དམངས་བཙག་འཐུའི་ མ་དངུལ་ ཐོག་ལས་སྤྲོད་བྱ་འདི་ ཕྱོགས་རིས་མེད་པའི་རྣམ་གཞག་གི་ ཐོག་ལས་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་བརྩམས་པའི་ ཁྲིམས་ཚུ་ དང་ འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་སྤྲོད་དགོ།
༣) བཙག་འཐུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུའི་བཙག་འཐུ་ཚུ་ནང་གཏོགས་མི་སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་དང་ འདེམས་ངོ་ཚུ་གིས་སྤྱོད་ཆོག་པའི་ཟད་གྲོན་ཡོངས་བསྡོམས་ཀྱི་མཐོ་ཚད་ཅིག་ གཏན་འཁེལ་བཟོ་དགོ།
༤) བཙག་འཐུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ སྲིད་དོན་ཚོགས་པ་ཅིག་ནང་ཐོ་བཀོད་གྲུབ་པའི་འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ དང་བླངས་ཐོག་ལས་སྤྲོད་ པའི་ ཞལ་འདེབས་ལུ་ བཙག་འཐུའི་མ་དངུལ་བཅའ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་ དགོངས་དོན་ཚུ་ལས་མ་འགལ་བར་ མཐོ་ཚད་ གཏན་འཁེལ་བཟོ་དགོ།
༥) སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་བརྩམས་པའི་ཁྲིམས་ ཡང་ན་ ཁྱབ་དབང་ཡོད་པའི་ཁྲིམས་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་ སྲིད་ དོན་ཚོགས་པ་དང་ འདེམས་ངོ་ཚུ་གིས་མ་དངུལ་ཐོབ་མི་ཚུ་ བཙག་འཐུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་བསྐུལ་མ་ དང་བསྟུན་ རྩིས་ཞིབ་དང་བརྟག་ཞིབ་འབད་དགོ། ༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༦༽
Political Parties
- EnglishThe law guarantees the non-interference of the public powers in the internal functioning of the political parties, except for that of the restrictions necessary for the prevention of ethnic, political, regional, religious or gender hatred and to maintain the public order. (Art. 80)
- KirundiIbwirizwa rirubahiriza imigambwe kugira ngo inzego za Leta ntizisuke mu buryo imigambwe ikora, kiretse iyo ari ukubuza ibijanye n’urwanko rushimikiye ku moko, kuri politike, intara, idini canke igitsina n’ukubungabunga umutekano. (Ingingo ya 80)
- FrenchLa loi garantit la non-ingérence des pouvoirs publics dans le fonctionnement interne des partis politiques, sauf pour ce qui est des restrictions nécessaires à la prévention de la haine ethnique, politique, régionale, religieuse ou de genre et au maintien de l’ordre public. (Art. 80)
Political Parties
- EnglishThe political parties must, to be recognized, conform to the following principals:
• the respect, the safeguarding and the consolidation of the national unity;
• the protection and the promotion of the fundamental rights of the human person;
• the pursuit of the satisfaction of the general interest of the Congolese people;
• the promotion of a State of law founded on the respect for and the defense of democracy, of the individual and collective freedoms;
• the defense of the integrity of the territory and of the national sovereignty;
• the proscription of intolerance, of ethnicism, of sectarianism and of the recourse to violence in all its forms;
• the respect of the republican, secular and indivisible character of the State. (Art. 61) - FrenchLes partis politiques doivent, pour être reconnus, se conformer aux principes suivants:
- le respect, la sauvegarde et la consolidation de l’unité nationale;
- la protection et la promotion des droits fondamentaux de la personne humaine;
- la poursuite de la satisfaction de l’intérêt général du peuple congolais;
- la promotion d’un Etat de droit fondé sur le respect et la défense de la démocratie, des libertés individuelles et collectives;
- la défense de l’intégrité du territoire et de la souveraineté nationale;
- la proscription de l’intolérance, de l’éthnicisme, du sectarisme et du recours à la violence sous toutes ses formes;
- le respect du caractère républicain, laïc et indivisible de l’Etat. (Art. 61)
Political Parties
- Englisha. Since the essence of democracy is free competition of ideas expressed by political parties and political groups as well as by individuals, parties may freely be established to advocate the political opinions of the people. Laws, regulations, decrees or measures which might have the effect of creating a one-party state shall be declared unconstitutional.
b. … The Legislature shall enact laws indicating the category of Liberians who shall not form or become members of political parties. (Art. 77)
Political Parties
- EnglishNo association by whatever name called shall function as a party, unless –
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(b) the membership of the association is open to every citizen of Nigeria irrespective of his place of origin, circumstance of birth, sex, religion or ethnic grouping;
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(e) the name of the association, its symbol or logo does not contain any ethnic or religious connotation or give the appearance that the activities of the association are confined to a part only of the geographical area of Nigeria;
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Political Parties
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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)
Political Parties
- English(1) Every person has a freedom, to freely and peaceably assemble, associate and cooperate with other persons, and for that purpose, express views publicly and to form and join with associations or organizations formed for purposes of preserving or furthering his beliefs or interests or any other interests.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subarticles (1) and (4), it shall not be lawful for any political party to be registered which according to its constitution or policy -
(a) aims at promoting or furthering the interests of -
(i) any faith or religious group;
(ii) any tribal group, place of origin, race or gender;
(iii) only a particular area within any part of the United Republic;
(b) advocates for the break-up of the United Republic;
(c) accepts or advocates for the use of the force or violent confrontation as means of attaining its political goals;
(d) advocates or intends to carry on its political activities in only one part of the United Republic; or
(e) does not permit periodic and democratic election of its leaders.
(3) Parliament may enact legislation which makes provisions for ensuring that political parties operate within the limits and adhere to the conditions set out in subarticle (2) concerning the freedom and the right of persons to associate and assemble.
(4) It shall be unlawful for any person to be compelled to join any association or organization, or for any association or for any political party to be refused registration on grounds solely of the ideology or philosophy of that political party. (Art. 20)