Application for registration

Applications for registration must be submitted by the chairman of the provisional executive committee to the Electoral Registry within two years from the date of the deed of constitution, as long as it is not within twelve months prior to the election in which the party expects to participate.

Neither the Electoral Registry nor the Tribunal may issue any resolutions whatsoever ordering the registration of parties within the six months prior to polling day.

In any case, all parties whose resolutions have not been issued by that time for reasons exclusively imputable to the management of the Electoral Registry shall be deemed to be registered, provided that the application for registration was submitted in time and in the proper form.

The following documents must be submitted together with the application for registration:

a) The certification of the notarial deed of constitution of the party referred to in Article 58 of this Act.

b) The registration of the minutes of the corresponding general assembly, in accordance with the level at which the party shall be registered, indicating the name of the TSE delegate present at said general assemblies.

c) Bylaws duly approved by the superior general assembly.

d) The names and capacities of the members of the party organs with details of their positions.

e) Three thousand subscriptions of voters registered in the Civil Registry as of the date of the constitution of the party, for parties at national level. One thousand registered members are required for provincial parties and five hundred registered members are required for cantonal parties.

The Electoral Registry shall not register political parties and bylaws of political parties that do not observe the principles of equality, nondiscrimination, parity and the alternation mechanism in their party structure nor renew their registration and neither shall it recognize the validity of their resolutions in violation of these principles.