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Election Obligations & Standards Database

Criterion

Political organizations were treated equally in being recognized and registering as a party


Election Parts

  • Candidacy and Campaigning

Issues

  • Establishment, Regulation of, and Membership in Political Parties
Summaries
  • Everyone has the right to association.
  • Particular individual electoral rights should be extended to associations and political parties.
  • Political parties may be required to register with election authorities when contesting the election. The grounds for rejecting a registration application should be based on objective criteria.
  • Regardless of their ideological position, political parties should be treated equally in being recognized and registering as a party.
  • Political parties should be assured that they will be able to compete with each other on an equal basis before the law.
  • Everyone has the right to establish a political party.
  • All individuals and groups should have the right to establish their own political parties or political organizations on equal terms.
  • Everyone has the right to associate with a political party.
  • Association with a political party must be voluntary.
EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

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