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Political Parties
Armenia
- English1. Every citizen shall have the right to create a party with other citizens and the right to become a member of a party. No one shall be compelled to become a member of a party.
2. Judges, prosecutors, and investigators may not be members of a party. The law may prescribe restrictions on the right to create and become a member of a party by servicemen of the armed forces, the national security, the police, and other militarized bodies.
3. Parties shall publish annual reports on the sources of their financial means and expenditures, as well as on their property.
4. In cases stipulated by law, the activities of a party may be suspended by a decision of the Constitutional Court. Parties that advocate the violent overthrow of the constitutional order or use violence for overthrowing the constitutional order shall be unconstitutional and are subject to prohibition by decision of the Constitutional Court. (Art. 46) - Armenian1. Յուրաքանչյուր քաղաքացի ունի այլ քաղաքացիների հետ կուսակցություն ստեղծելու և որևէ կուսակցության անդամագրվելու իրավունք: Ոչ ոքի չի կարելի հարկադրել անդամագրվելու որևէ կուսակցության:
2. Դատավորները, դատախազները և քննիչները չեն կարող լինել կուսակցության անդամ: Օրենքով կարող են սահմանվել զինված ուժերում, ազգային անվտանգության, ոստիկանության և այլ ռազմականացված մարմիններում ծառայողների կողմից կուսակցություն ստեղծելու և որևէ կուսակցության անդամագրվելու իրավունքի սահմանափակումներ:
3. Կուսակցությունները տարեկան հաշվետվություններ են հրապարակում իրենց ֆինանսական միջոցների աղբյուրների և ծախսերի, ինչպես նաև իրենց գույքի մասին:
4. Օրենքով սահմանված դեպքերում կուսակցության գործունեությունը կարող է կասեցվել Սահմանադրական դատարանի որոշմամբ: Այն կուսակցությունները, որոնք քարոզում են սահմանադրական կարգի բռնի տապալում կամ բռնություն են կիրառում սահմանադրական կարգը տապալելու նպատակով, հակասահմանադրական են և ենթակա են արգելման Սահմանադրական դատարանի որոշմամբ: (Հոդված 46)
Political Parties
Belarus
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Citizens have the right to form political parties and other public associations and to participate in their activities in order to pursue and satisfy their political, social, economic, cultural and other interests.
Political parties and other public associations shall be established and act in accordance with the law.
Judges, prosecutors, employees of the State Control Committee, paramilitary organisations and members of the armed forces may not be members of political parties. (Art. 36) - Belarusian
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Грамадзяне для ажыццяўлення і задавальнення палітычных, сацыяльных, эканамічных, культурных і іншых інтарэсаў маюць права на стварэнне палітычных партый і іншых грамадскіх аб’яднанняў, удзел у іх дзейнасці.
Палітычныя партыі і іншыя грамадскія аб’яднанні ствараюцца і дзейнічаюць у адпаведнасці з законам.
Суддзі, пракурорскія работнікі, супрацоўнікі Камітэта дзяржаўнага кантролю, ваенізаваных арганізацый, ваеннаслужачыя не могуць быць членамі палітычных партый. (Артыкул 36) - Russian
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Граждане для осуществления и удовлетворения политических, социальных, экономических, культурных и иных интересов имеют право на создание политических партий и других общественных объединений, участие в их деятельности.
Политические партии и другие общественные объединения создаются и действуют в соответствии с законом.
Судьи, прокурорские работники, сотрудники Комитета государственного контроля, военизированных организаций, военнослужащие не могут быть членами политических партий. (Статья 36)
Political Parties
Chad
- EnglishPolitical parties and groups concur in the expression of suffrage. They form freely and exercise their activities according to conditions specified (prevues) by the law and in respect of the principles of National Sovereignty, of the territorial integrity, of national unity and of pluralistic democracy. (Art. 4)
- Arabicتتفق الأحزاب السياسية والمجموعات في التعبير عن الاقتراع. تتشكل بحرية وتمارس أنشطتها وفق الشروط المحددة في القانون وفي مجال احترام مبادئ السيادة الوطنية والسلامة الإقليمية والوحدة الوطنية والديمقراطية التعددية. (المادة 4)
- FrenchLes partis et les groupements politiques concourent à l'expression du suffrage. Ils se forment librement et exercent leurs activités dans les conditions prévues par la loi et dans le respect des principes de la souveraineté nationale, de l'intégrité territoriale, de l'unité nationale et de la démocratie pluraliste. (Art. 4)
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;
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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
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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)
Political Parties
Timor-Leste
- English1. Political parties shall participate in organs of political power in accordance with their democratic representation based on direct and universal suffrage.
2. The right of political parties to democratic opposition, as well as the right to be informed regularly and directly on the progress of the main issues of public interest, shall be recognised. (Sec. 70) - Tetum1. Partidu polítiku sira partisipa iha órgaun kbiit polítiku nian tuir sira-nia reprezentatividade demokrátiku, bazeadu iha eleisaun universál no diretu.
2. Iha rekoñesimentu ba partidu polítiku sira-nia direitu atu hala’o opozisaun demokrasia, nune’e mós direitu atu simu informasaun, regulár no diretu, kona-ba lala’ok asuntu prinsipál interese nasaun ninian. (Art. 70) - Portuguese1. Os partidos políticos participam nos órgãos do poder político de acordo com a sua representatividade democrática, baseada no sufrágio universal e directo.
2. É reconhecido aos partidos políticos o direito à oposição democrática, assim como o direito a serem informados, regular e directamente, sobre o andamento dos principais assuntos de interesse nacional. (Art. 70)