1. The following are obligations of the political parties:

a) To conduct their activities in a legal manner and to adjust their behavior and that of their members to the principles of the democratic State, respecting the free political participation of the other political parties and the rights of the citizens;

b) To abstain from using violence and any other action which aims at or results in altering the public order, disturbing the possession of the rights or obstructing the regular functioning of the government bodies;

c) To maintain the minimum of members required in the respective laws for their creation and registration;

d) To blazon the name, emblem and color or colors that they have registered, which could not be the same or similar to the ones used by other existing political parties;

e) To comply with the af f liation regulations and to follow the procedures set out in their statutes for the nomination of candidates;

f) To keep their statutory bodies in effective operation;

g) To have a public address for their internal bodies;

h) To issue at least one quarterly dissemination publication and another publication of a theoretical nature every six months;

i) To reject any type of economic, political or propaganda support from foreigners or ministers of any religion, as well as from religious associations and organizations and churches and any of the persons prohibited by law from f nancing the political parties;

j) To publish and disseminate in the electoral demarcations in which they participate, as well as in the airtime corresponding to them in the radio stations and in the television channels, the electoral platform that they will hold in the election in question;

k) To allow the performance of audits and verifications by the bodies of the Institute authorized for this, or by the Local Public Bodies when the auditing powers established in article 41 of the Constitution for the Institute are delegated to them, as well as to provide the documents regarding their incomes and expenditures requested of them by these bodies;

l) To inform the Institute or the Local Public Bodies, as applies, of any change to their basic documents within the ten following days following the date on which the corresponding agreement was reached by the political party. The changes will not take effect until the General Council of the Institute declares their constitutional and legal validity. The decision should be issued no later than 30 working days after the presentation of the corresponding documents or of the information about the changes of the members of their management bodies and of their public address, in the terms of the applicable provisions;

m) To act and behave without depending on or being subordinated to political parties, foreign natural or legal persons, international organizations or entities and minister of any religion;

n) To use the funding that they dispose of exclusively for the purposes for which they have been provided;

ñ) To abstain from any expression that defame the institutions and the political parties or that slander any person in their political or electoral propaganda;

o) To abstain from using religious symbols, as well as expressions, allusions or beliefs of a religious character in their propaganda;

p) To abstain from performing collective affiliations of citizens;

q) To guarantee gender parity in the candidatures for the federal and local legislatures;

r) To prepare and present the reports on the source and use of the resources referred to in this Law;

s) To comply with the obligations imposed on them by the legislation regarding transparency and access to information, and

t) The other obligations established by the applicable federal and local laws.