CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL (extracts)
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Constitutional text of 1988, translated by Istvan Vajda, Patrícia de Queiroz Carvalho Zimbres and Vanira Tavares de Souza and published by the Brazilian Federal Senate.
(N.B.: Alternative translations are between square brackets; translations between braces correspond to changes posterior to the quoted translation.)
TITLE II
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND GUARANTEES
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CHAPTER V
POLITICAL PARTIES
Article 17. The creation, amalgamation, merger and extinction of political parties is free, with due regard for national sovereignty, the democratic regime, the plurality of political parties, the fundamental rights of the individual, and observing the following precepts:
I - national character;
II - prohibition from receiving financial assistance from a foreign entity or government or from subordination to same:
III - rendering of accounts to the Electoral Courts;
IV - operation in the National Congress in accordance with the law.
Paragraph 1. {Political parties are ensured of autonomy to define their internal structure, organization and operation and to adopt the criteria of selection and regime of their electoral coalitions, without obligation of bond between the candidacies in national, state, district or municipal levels, and their by-laws shall establish rules of party loyalty and discipline.}
Paragraph 2. After acquiring corporate legal status under civil law, political parties shall register their by-laws at the Superior Electoral Court.
Paragraph 3. Political parties are entitled to monies from the party fund and to free-of-charge access to radio and television, as established by law.
Paragraph 4. Political parties are forbidden to use paramilitary organizations.
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