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Paragraph 42
 

The text of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948, Article 21, already referred to these main premises:


“(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. ...


(3)The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures”.