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Article 39
 

1. The statutes will establish:


a) The name of the political party, the emblem and the color or colors that characterize and differentiate it from the other political parties. The name and the emblem cannot include religious or racial allusions;


b) The procedures for the individual, personal, free and peaceful aff liation of their members, as well as their rights and obligations;


c) The rights and obligations of their members;


d) The organic structure according to which the political party will be organized;


e) The democratic rules and procedures for the integration and renewal of the internal bodies, as well as the functions, powers and obligations of these bodies;


f) The democratic rules and procedures for the nomination of their candidates;


g) The obligation to present an electoral platform for every election in which it participates, which should be based on its declaration of principles and action program;


h) The obligation of their candidates to uphold and disseminate the electoral platform during the electoral campaign in which they participate;


i) The types and the rules of private financing that the political parties resort to;


j) The rules, deadlines and procedures of intraparty justice and the alternative resolution mechanisms for internal controversies, with which the rights of the members as well as the timeliness and legality of the decisions are guaranteed, and


k) The sanctions applicable to the members that infringe on their internal provisions, through an intraparty disciplinary procedure, with due process that includes the rights to a hearing and to a defense, the description of the possible infractions to the internal regulations of causes for expulsion and the obligation to motivate and justify the respective decision.