constituteproject.org PDF generated: 04 Jan 2016, 20:27 Article 4 • Secret ballot • Claim of universal suffrage The popular legitimacy is the foundation and the source of all power. It is expressed by universal, equal and secret suffrage. The executive power and legislative power shall proceed from universal suffrage or from the instances elected through it. • Restrictions on voting Article 5 All the Djiboutian nationals of majority, of both sexes, enjoying their civil and political rights are electors within the conditions determined by the law. • Right to form political parties Article 6 The political parties and/or groups of political parties concur in the expression of suffrage. They form and exercise their activities freely within respect for the Constitution, and for the principles of national sovereignty and of democracy. • Prohibited political parties • Regulation of political parties It is forbidden to them to identify themselves to a race, to an ethnicity, to a sex, to a religion, to a sect, to a language or to a region. • Restrictions on political parties The formalities concerning the administrative declaration of the political parties and/or groups, and to the exercise and to the cessation of their activities are determined by the law. Article 7 The Institutions of the Republic are: • the executive power, • the legislative power, • the judicial power. Each of these powers assumes the full and entire responsibility of its prerogatives and attributions within such conditions that the continuity and regular functioning of the republican institutions shall be assured. Article 8 The institutions of the Republic must permit the normal and regular exercise of popular sovereignty and guarantee the full expression of the public rights and freedoms. • International organizations Article 9 The institutions must permit the participation of the Republic in regional and international organizations, with respect for sovereignty, for the edification of peace and of international justice and the economic, cultural and social development of peoples. Djibouti 1992 (rev. 2010) Page 4