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Article 10
 

10.1. The citizens’ organizations that aim to become national or local political parties should obtain their registration before the Institute or before a Local Public Body, as applies.


10.2. In order for a citizens’ organization to be registered as a political party, it should be verif ed that this organizations fulf lls the following requirements:


a) To present a declaration of principles and, in congruence with them, its action program and the statutes that regulate its activities; which should satisfy the minimum requirements established in this Law;


b) In the case of national political parties, to have three thousand members in at least twenty states or to have three hundred members in at least two hundred uninominal electoral districts, who should have a voter card with photography corresponding to that entity or district, as appropriate; the total number of its members in the country cannot under any circumstances be less than 0.26 percent of the federal registry of voters that was used in the ordinary federal election immediately prior to the presentation of the request in question, and


c) In the case of local political parties, to have members in at two-thirds of the municipalities of the state or of the boroughs of the Federal District, who should have a voter card corresponding to those municipalities or boroughs; the total number of its members in the state cannot under any circumstances be less than 0.26 percent of the registry of voters that was used in the ordinary local election immediately prior to the presentation of the request in question.