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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
Zimbabwe
- English…
(2) Subject to this Constitution, every Zimbabwean citizen has the right—
(a) to form, to join and to participate in the activities of a political party or organisation of their choice;
(b) to campaign freely and peacefully for a political party or cause;
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(4) For the purpose of promoting multi-party democracy, an Act of Parliament must provide for the funding of political parties. (Sec. 67)
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)
Political Parties
El Salvador
- EnglishThe Government is republican, democratic and representative.
The political system is pluralist and expresses itself through the political parties, which are the only instrument for the exercise of the representation of the People within the Government. The norms, [the] organization and [the] functioning will be subject to the principles of [a] representative democracy.
The existence of a sole official party is incompatible with the democratic system and with the form of government established in this Constitution. (Art. 85) - SpanishEl Gobierno es republicano, democrático y representativo.
El sistema político es pluralista y se expresa por medio de los partidos políticos, que son el único instrumento para el ejercicio de la representación del pueblo dentro del Gobierno. Las normas, organización y funcionamiento se sujetarán a los principios de la democracia representativa.
La existencia de un partido único oficial es incompatible con el sistema democrático y con la forma de gobierno establecidos en esta Constitución. (Art. 85)
Political Parties
Czech Republic
- EnglishThe political system is founded on the free and voluntary formation of and free competition among those political parties which respect the fundamental democratic principles and which renounce force as a means of promoting their interests. (1993 Constitution, Art. 5)
- CzechPolitický systém je založen na svobodném a dobrovolném vzniku a volné soutěži politických stran respektujících základní demokratické principy a odmítajících násilí jako prostředek k prosazování svých zájmů. (Ústava 1993, Čl. 5)
Political Parties
Panama
- EnglishPolitical parties express political pluralism, contribute to the formation and manifestation of the popular will, and are fundamental instruments of political participation, without prejudice to the freedom of electoral nomination in the form prescribed by this Constitution and by law. The internal structure and the functioning of political parties shall be based on democratic principles.
The law shall regulate the registration and the continued existence of political parties but in no case may provide that the minimum number of votes required for survival is higher than five percent (5%) of the valid votes cast in elections for President, members of the National Assembly, Mayors or Precinct Representatives, whichever is the vote in which the party concerned has been most successful. (Art. 138) - SpanishLos partidos políticos expresan el pluralismo político, concurren a la formación y manifestación de la voluntad popular y son instrumentos fundamentales para la participación política, sin perjuicio de la postulación libre en la forma prevista en esta Constitución y la Ley. La estructura interna y el funcionamiento de los partidos políticos estarán fundados en principios democráticos.
La Ley reglamentará el reconocimiento y subsistencia de los partidos políticos, sin que, en ningún caso, pueda establecer que el número de los votos necesarios para su subsistencia sea superior al cinco por ciento de los votos válidos emitidos en las elecciones para Presidente, Diputados, Alcaldes o Representantes de Corregimientos, según la votación más favorable al partido. (Art. 138)
Political Parties
Paraguay
- EnglishThe political parties and movements, in their functioning, may not:
1. receive economic aid [auxilio], directions or instructions from foreign organizations or States;
2. establish structures which, directly or indirectly, imply the use of, or a call for, violence as [a] methodology of the political activity [quehacer], and
3. constitute themselves with the goals [fines] of substituting by the force the regime of freedom and democracy, or of endangering the existence of the Republic. (Art. 126) - SpanishLos partidos y los movimientos políticos, en su funcionamiento, no podrán:
1. recibir auxilio económico, directivas o instrucciones de organizaciones o Estados extranjeros;
2. establecer estructuras que, directa o indirectamente, impliquen la utilización o la apelación a la violencia como metodología del quehacer político, y
3. constituirse con fines de sustituir por la fuerza el régimen de libertad y de democracia, o de poner en peligro la existencia de la República. (Art. 126)
Political Parties
Spain
- EnglishPolitical parties are the expression of political pluralism, they contribute to the formation and expression of the will of the people and are an essential instrument for political participation. Their creation and the exercise of their activities are free in so far as they respect the Constitution and the law. Their internal structure and their functioning must be democratic. (Sec. 6)
- SpanishLos partidos políticos expresan el pluralismo político, concurren a la formación y manifestación de la voluntad popular y son instrumento fundamental para la participación política. Su creación y el ejercicio de su actividad son libres dentro del respeto a la Constitución y a la ley. Su estructura interna y funcionamiento deberán ser democráticos. (Art. 6)
Political Parties
Burundi
- EnglishThe external financing of the political parties is prohibited, save for exceptional derogation established by the law.
All financing of a nature that infringes the national independence and sovereignty is prohibited.
The law determines and organizes the sources of financing of the political parties. (Art. 83) - KirundiBirabujijwe ko imigambwe ihabwa imfanshanyo y’amafaranga ivuye mu mahanga kiretse ibwirizwa ribitangiye uruhusha rudasanzwe.
Imfashanyo y’amafaranga iyo ari yo yose yoshobora kubangamira ukwikukira kw’igihugu n’ukukibuza kwitunganiriza ivyaco irabujijwe.
Ibwirizwa ni ryo ritomora kandi rikaringaniza aho imfashanyo z’imigambwe zikomoka. (Ingingo ya 83) - FrenchLe financement extérieur des partis politiques est interdit, sauf dérogation exceptionnelle établie par la loi.
Tout financement de nature à porter atteinte à l’indépendance et à la souveraineté nationales est interdit.
La loi détermine et organise les sources de financement des partis politiques. (Art. 83)
Political Parties
Congo
- English…
The law equally establishes the rules concerning:
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• the regime of the political parties, of the non-governmental associations and organizations;
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La loi fixe également les règles concernant:
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- le régime des partis politiques, des associations et des organisations non gouvernementales;
… (Art. 125)