55.1. The Executive Directorate of Prerogatives and Political Parties has the following responsibilities:

a) To receive the notifications made by the organizations that aim to become national political parties or political associations and to carry out the appropriate activities;

b) To receive the registration applications from the citizen organizations that have fulfilled the requirements established in this Law to become a political party or political association, and to integrate the corresponding file so that the Executive Secretary can give it to the General Council for its review;

c) To enter into the corresponding book the registration of political parties and associations, as well as the merger, alliance and coalition agreements and participation agreements;

d) To provide the national political parties and the political associations with the public financing they are entitled to according to the provisions of this Law;

e) To carry out the necessary procedures so that the political parties can have at their disposal the postal and telegraphic exemptions that they are entitled to;

f) To support the efforts of the political parties and the political associations to effectively use their prerogatives in fiscal matters;

g) To carry out what is necessary for the political parties to be able to use their prerogatives of access to airtime in radio and television, in the terms established by Basis III of article 41 of the Constitution and the provisions of this Law;

h) To elaborate and present to the Radio and Television Committee the standards for the allocation of the airtime that corresponds to the political parties and the Independent Candidates in these media, in accordance with the provisions of this Law and the applicable Regulation approved by the General Council;

i) To be in charge of the registry of the members of the management bodies of the political parties and of their certified representatives to the national, local and district Institute bodies, as well as the registry of the leaders of the political associations;

j) To be in charge of the registry of the candidates for elective office;

k) To organize the election of the leaders of the political parties, when the Institute is requested to do so. The corresponding costs will be discounted from the public financing of the applying political parties;

l) To agree with the Executive Secretary of the Institute on the matters of its responsibility;

m) To participate in the sessions of the Prerogatives and Political Parties Commission only with the right to speak and to act as Technical Secretary of the Radio and Television Committee;

n) To integrate the Registry of local political parties referred to in the General Law on Political Parties;

ñ) To integrate the reports on the registration of candidates that the Local Public Bodies carry out for each local election, and

o) The other responsibilities established by this Law;