TITLE IV. OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES
Article 51
The political party is an association endowed with moral personality, which assembles citizens for the peacefully acquisition and administration of power around a project of democratic society dictated by the concern to realize the general interest.
Article 52
The political parties have a national character and should not identify themselves in form, in action or, in whatever manner, to an ethnic group, to a department, to a religion or to a sect.
Article 53
The political parties are recognized in accordance with the Constitution and the law.
To be recognized, they are required notably to adhere to the following fundamental principles:
- the respect, the safeguarding and the consolidation of the national unity;
the protection and the promotion of the fundamental rights of the human person; the promotion of a State of law, founded on the respect and the defense of democracy, of individual and collective freedoms; the defense of the integrity of the territory and of the national sovereignty; the proscription of intolerance, of ethnicism, of recourse to violence in all its forms; the respect of the secularity of the State; the satisfaction of the criteria of national representation specified by the law.
The political parties that, in their functioning, do not conform themselves to the principles enunciated above, are subject to dissolution.
Article 54
The State participates in the financing of the political parties.
The law determines the conditions and the modalities of the financing of the political parties.
Article 55
It is prohibited to the political parties to receive any form of participation of a nature that infringes the independence and the national sovereignty.
