LAW NO. 20,640 ESTABLISHES THE SYSTEM OF PRIMARY ELECTIONS FOR THE NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, PARLIAMENTARIANS AND MAYORS Having present that the National Congress has given its approval to the following Bill: " TITLE PRELIMINARY Article 1 °.-This law establishes and regulates a system of primary elections to be used by political parties for the nomination of candidates for the positions of popular choice that determines the law, by virtue of the provisions of the Article 19 (15) of the Political Constitution. Article 2.-Political parties, when determined by their internal bodies, in accordance with their statutes and the provisions of Law Nº 18.603, Constitutional Organics of Political Parties, may participate in elections The candidates are candidates for office of President of the Republic, Senator, Deputy and Mayor in the form and conditions established by this law. TITLE I OF THE PRIMARY ELECTIONS Paragraph 1 Of The Realization of the Primary Elections and its Date Article 3 °.-The Electoral Service shall organize a joint primary election for the nomination of the candidates for the office of President of the Republic and of Parliamentarians, and another for the position of Mayor. The primary election for the nomination of candidates for the posts of President of the Republic and of Parliamentarians will be of national character and must be held on the twentieth Sunday before the date of the election of President of the Republic. The primary election for the nomination of candidates to the position of mayor must be held on the 20th Sunday before the date of the municipal elections. The primary elections shall be held simultaneously on the dates indicated for all candidates of the political parties and electoral pacts participating in them. Article 4 °.-As stated in the previous article, it will govern as long as any political party or electoral pact of political parties has declared candidates for the primary elections for the nomination of candidates for the President of the Republic, of Parliamentarians or Mayors, as appropriate, in accordance with Articles 14 and 15, and these have been accepted by the Electoral Service. The primary elections will be held only in the electoral territories where candidates have been declared. For the purpose of this law, it will be understood as electoral territory, in the case of the election of President of the Republic, to all the electoral constituencies; in the case of the election of Senators, to the territory understood by the senatorial constituencies; in the case of the election of deputies, to the territory of the electoral district; and in the case of the election of mayors, to the territory of the commune. Article 5 °.-No primary elections shall be held for the nomination of candidates for the office of President of the Republic, when the presidential elections are convened under the circumstances mentioned in the fourth indent of the Article 26, the second paragraph of Article 28 and the fourth indent of Article 29 of the Political Constitution of the Republic. Article 6.-For the primary elections governed by this law, in all that is not contrary to it and in whatever is applicable, shall govern the provisions of law Nº 18,700, Constitutional Organic on Popular Voting and Elections; of the Law Nº 18,556, Constitutional Organic of Electoral Enrollments and Electoral Service, of Law Nº 18,695, Constitutional Organic of Municipalities and of Law Nº 18,603, Constitutional Organic of Political Parties. Paragraph 2 of the Decision to Participate in the Primary Elections Article 7 °.-The political parties may participate in the primary election for the nomination of candidates for the posts of President of the Republic and Mayor, in form individually or in conjunction with other parties and independent candidates, forming an electoral pact, and in order to nominate a candidate for each position in the corresponding electoral territory. In the primary election for the nomination of candidates to the posts of parliamentarians, for each electoral territory, the political parties will be able to participate: a) Individually, without having signed an electoral pact with other parties, and with the object to determine one or more of its candidates. b) individually, having signed an electoral pact with other parties, and in order to determine one or more of its candidates within the pact. c) In conjunction with other parties with which he has signed an electoral pact, and in order to determine the whole of the candidates of the pact. In the joint election of President and Parliamentarians there may be an electoral pact for the presidential elections and a different one for the parliamentary elections. The pact for parliamentary elections should be common, covering all the senatorial constituencies and districts. The pact for the mayoral elections should be common, covering all the communes. Independents will be able to participate in the primary elections either by a political party or as members of an electoral pact. Article 8 °.-The General Council of each political party shall be responsible for the decision to participate in a primary election for the nomination of its candidate to the President of the Republic, to do so individually or through an electoral pact, and the nomination of candidates for that election. The General Council shall decide on the decisions referred to in this Article, at the request of the Central Party Directive or 10% of the members of that Council. Article 9 °.-The General Council of each political party will be responsible for the decision to participate in primary elections for the nomination of candidates for the positions of Parliamentarians and Mayors, the electoral territories in which they will participate, the to do so individually or through an electoral pact, and the nomination of candidates for such elections. The General Council shall decide on the decisions referred to in this Article, at the request of the Central Board of the Party or the Regional Council. Article 10.-The decision to conduct the primary election process may be made separately for the nomination of the candidate or candidates of each post of popular choice, it is not mandatory to subject all the charges to the same process which are chosen in the same choice. The primary election process shall cover the entire electoral territory corresponding to the position of which candidates are to be nominated. Article 11.-It shall be necessary to participate in the primary elections that the political party or electoral pact declares, at least, a higher number of candidates for the positions to be defined. Article 12.-The electoral pact for the election of President of the Republic must be formalized before the Director of the Electoral Service, before the expiration of the deadline for making the declarations of candidates for the primary elections, by submitting the following documents: a) Declaration signed by the presidents and secretaries of the political parties and by the independent members of the pact, which should indicate the decision to participate in the electoral pact for the primary election of the President of the Republic, to support in the final election the candidate who is nominated for this process and the other requirements referred to in the fourth indent of Article 3a of Law No 18,770 on Popular Voting and Scrutiny, and b) Declaration of nominations for the nomination to the position of President of the Republic for the primary election. The electoral pact for the election of President of the Republic shall be understood as having the date of its formalization. Political parties and independent parties which have constituted an electoral pact shall not be able to agree to another, unless that agreement is no longer effective. Only this electoral pact may be left without effect before the deadline for declaring nominations, provided that the parties that integrate it have complied with the provisions of Article 29, first paragraph, of Law No 18,603, and there is unanimous agreement between them. This agreement shall be communicated to the Director of the Electoral Service, by means of a declaration signed by the presidents and secretaries of the political parties and by the independent parties concerned, before the expiration of the deadline for declaring applications. The electoral pact for the presidential elections may also be left without effect before the expiration of the deadline for declaring candidacies referred to in article 6 of the law Nº 18,700, at the request of one of the political parties involved. of the same, submitted to the Director of the Electoral Service, provided that any of the circumstances referred to in Article 38 (a) are met. Independents who integrate an electoral pact constituted in accordance with this article may be represented by one or two persons who will act jointly, which shall be designated by public deed. Such writing shall be submitted together with the documents referred to in the first subparagraph. Article 13.-In the event that two or more political parties decide to participate in the elections of parliamentarians or mayors by forming an electoral pact, and decide to resolve the nomination of one of their parliamentary candidates or mayors by primary elections, the electoral pact shall be formalized before the Director of the Electoral Service within the time limit referred to in Article 14 and in the form prior to the declarations of candidates of the primary elections, the presentation of a declaration signed by the presidents and secretaries of the political parties and independent members of the pact, which should indicate the decision to participate in the electoral pact for the primary election, to support in the the final choice of candidates who are nominated for this process and the other requirements mentioned in the fourth paragraph of article 3 (a) of the Law Nº 18,700, Constitutional Organic on Popular Voting and Scrutiny. The electoral pacts signed on the occasion of these primary elections of Parliamentarians or Mayors, will be understood as having the date of their formalization and will be valid until the end of the final election of Parliamentarians or Mayors and councillors in question. The formalisation of the agreement shall not be necessary in accordance with Article 3a of Law No 18,700, or Article 110 of Law No 18,695, on the occasion of the declaration of nominations to Parliamentarians or Mayors and Councilors, the nomination of which has not been made by means of primary elections, in such a case the declaration of candidates signed by the presidents and secretaries of the parties members of the pact is sufficient. The electoral sub-compacts for the election of councilors which provides for an electoral pact, in accordance with the provisions of Article 109 of Law No 18,695, may be carried out after the primary elections of the mayor and within the time limit. established in Article 107 of the same law. Political parties which have constituted an electoral pact shall not be able to agree to another, unless that agreement is no longer effective. This electoral pact can only be left without effect before the deadline for declaring nominations for the primary elections, provided that the parties that integrate it have complied with the provisions of the first subparagraph of the Article 29 of Law No 18,603, and there is unanimous agreement between them. This agreement shall be communicated to the Director of the Electoral Service, by means of a declaration signed by the presidents and secretaries of the political parties concerned, before the expiration of the deadline for declaring nominations. Paragraph 3 of the Declaration of Nominations Article 14.-The declarations of nominations to the President of the Republic, to Parliament and to the Mayor to participate in the primary elections, can only be made up to twenty-four hours of the sixtieth day before the date on which the primary election is to be held. No candidate may appear in more than one nomination. Article 15.-Candidates nominated by a political party to participate in the primary elections may be affiliated to that party or independent. In any case, the candidates nominated by a political party that participates individually in the primary elections for the nomination of candidates for the posts of Diputado or Senator must always be affiliated to that party, according to the In the second paragraph of article 4 ° of the Law Nº 18,700, Constitutional Organic on Popular Voting and Elections. Independent candidates who are not nominated by political parties or which do not include electoral pacts may not participate in the primary elections. Article 16.-Together with each declaration of candidacy, the political party or the electoral pact shall attach a rule to determine the electoral roll referred to in Article 20, which may be different in the case of elections presidential, parliamentary or municipal. Political parties whose statutes have affirmative action measures shall proceed in accordance with them when selecting their candidates for the primary elections. Article 17.-The declaration of the persons responsible for electoral work and the appointment of representatives, as referred to in Article 7 of the Law Nº 18,700, may be made separately by each candidate, even in cases where they are from the same party. political or electoral pact. Article 18.-Independent candidates nominated to participate in primary elections by political parties or which integrate electoral pacts shall not require the sponsorships referred to in Articles 8 ° and 13 of Law Nº 18,700 and 112 of Law Nº 18.695. Article 19.-The Electoral Service shall verify compliance with the constitutional and legal requirements of the candidates to apply to each office. Compliance with the requirements to be a candidate shall always be assessed in relation to the date of the final choice and, in no case, in relation to the date of the primary election. The deadline for the Director of the Electoral Service to accept or reject the declarations of candidates for the primary elections in accordance with Article 17 of the Law Nº 18,700 shall be five days. Article 20, paragraph 4.-Each political party or electoral pact that participates in the primary elections must present to the Electoral Service for each type of primary, whether presidential, parliamentary or mayor, together with the declaration of nominations, the rule of how the electoral roll of the eligible voters will be determined for each of them. The rule must include one of the following options of voters: (a) Only party members entitled to exercise the right to vote, in the event that the party participates individually. b) Only party members, and independent without political affiliation, entitled to exercise the right to vote, in the event that the party participates individually. (c) Only members of the party or the parties to the pact entitled to exercise the right to vote in the case of an electoral pact. (d) Only members of the party or the party members of the pact and independent parties without political affiliation entitled to exercise the right to vote, in the case of an electoral pact. (e) All eligible voters. In the case of primary elections for President of the Republic in which there is an independent candidacy as indicated in the final paragraph of Article 7, the political parties or electoral pacts participating in the process may only be held choose as the rule for determining the electoral roll as set out in points (b), (d) or (e) of this Article. Article 21.-The Electoral Service shall establish the electoral roll of each ballot receiving table which shall contain eligible voters in each primary election who meet the requirements necessary to exercise the right of vote to vote, in accordance with the records known to that Service on the 60th day preceding the date of the primary election. For these purposes, the provisions of Titles II and III of Law Nº 18,556, Constitutional Organic of Electoral Enrollments and Electoral Service shall not apply, except as regards the publicity of the electoral roll to be granted by means of magnetic means and ordered in alphabetical form, in accordance with the provisions of Article 31 (5) of that law. The electoral roll shall contain the names and names of each voter and their national unique role number. With respect to the electors entitled to vote in the primary elections, the register shall indicate the primary of the parties or covenants in which it may vote, as referred to in the previous article or, alternatively, the electoral card that it must receive from the receiving desk to vote. The register shall also include spaces for the signature of the voter and to record the serial number of the card he uses, in respect of the elections of each office that is submitted to the primary elections. Paragraph 5. of the electoral cards, the electoral act and the right to vote of the electors Article 22.-For the primary elections, there shall be different electoral cards, as the primary elections of the President of the Republic, Senators, Deputies or Mayors. For each position of President of the Republic, Senator, Deputy and Mayor will exist the following electoral cards: a) There will be a different electoral card for each primary of a political party or electoral pact that will contain only the party candidates or the pact, which must be used by voters who are eligible to vote only in that primary, as established by the electoral roll of the table receiving votes. (b) Another electoral card shall exist for eligible voters in more than one primary election for the same office, as established by the electoral roll of the table receiving the votes, which shall contain all the candidates of the candidates. primary. The Electoral Service shall ensure that the electoral cards to be drawn up for the primary elections of the same office are similar in its external aspect. Article 23.-When the voter is presented, he/she will receive from the receiving table the electoral cards to cast his ballot, according to the primaries held in the electoral territory that corresponds to him. The elector will receive an electoral card for the primary election to the office of President of the Republic, one for the primary election to the position of Senator, one for the primary election to the position of the Deputy and one for the primary election to the position of Mayor, if any. In respect of each position, the voter will receive the electoral card according to the primary election in which he is entitled to vote, as indicated by the electoral roll of the table and which will contain only the candidates of the primary. In the event that an elector is entitled to pay in two or more primaries for the same office as the electoral roll of the table, he shall receive from it a single cedula which shall contain, in and This is the case, all candidates for the primary office in which they are entitled to vote. Table vowels shall take sufficient and necessary safeguards to ensure that the elector is only to be paid in accordance with Article 61 of the law Nº 18,700, and that the cards given to the electors for the primary of each office and the candidates that they contain are kept in reserve and are known only by them, by the proxies that make up the table and by whom they eventually attend the elector and in no case by other people and by the other electors waiting to vote. The members of the board, representatives, delegates of the Electoral Board and those who serve the Electoral Service must maintain absolute reserve of the voter rolls used at the polling stations, where the signatures of the electors of the primary elections in which they cast. The infringement of this precept will result in the sanction referred to in Article 142 of the law Nº 18,700, applying in these cases the judicial proceedings referred to in Paragraph 2 of Title VII of the law Nº 18,700. Article 24.-In the case of the primary elections for the nomination of candidates to the posts of President of the Republic, of the Parliament and of the Mayor, the elector must pay by marking the preference for only one of the candidates who appear in the electoral card. Article 24a.-Suffrage shall be personal, equal, secret, informed and voluntary. Paragraph 6 ° Of the voting reception tables, table vowels, proxies and votes Article 25.-The Electoral Service shall determine the number of ballot receiving tables and the number of ballot boxes to be installed by each table; (i) the right to vote, in accordance with the provisions laid down in this paragraph. Article 26.-The Director of the Electoral Service may apply the power referred to in Article 37 of the Law Nº 18,700, concerning the gathering of two or more voting tables, on a transitional basis and only for the primary elections, when the (a) consider it necessary on the basis of the experience of voter turnout and turnout to vote in other primary elections. The merged tables will be able to exceed 450 electors. The number of vote-receiving tables shall be determined on the fiftieth day before that of the primary election. Article 27.-In the event that the above article applies, the Electoral Board shall elect five vowels by lot, from among all those who correspond to the tables that met in one. Article 28.-Repealed. Article 29.-The power conferred on political parties to designate seats and proxies, contained in Articles 157 and 159 of the law Nº 18,700, shall also be understood as conferring on each of the candidates participating in a primary election. Article 29a.-In the elections, the table will first examine the primary of the position of President of the Republic, then those of senators and finally those of deputies, when appropriate. In respect of each position of President of the Republic, Senator, Deputy or Mayor shall proceed as follows: (a) The President shall count the number of voters who have suffraged according to the signatures on the table of the table and the number of heels corresponding to the issued cards. The ballot box shall be opened, the cards used shall be counted and shall be signed on the back by the president and the secretary of the bureau. If there is disagreement between the number of signatures, of the heels and of the cards, the record shall be recorded, but shall not prevent the scrutiny of all the cards issued. (b) The president and secretary of the bureau shall then proceed to open the electoral cards and to separate them for each of the primary elections held for the office. In respect of electoral cards containing candidates of more than one primary election, such separation shall be carried out according to the preference indicated by the elector in the transferor itself. (c) The different primaries shall then be scrutinised according to the numerical or alphabetical order given to the political parties and electoral covenants as identification codes in the draw referred to in the final paragraph of Article 22. To this end, separately for each primary, the president of the bureau will give a live reading of the preference that the cards contain, and the qualification of them will be made according to the number 5) of the first paragraph of article 71 of the law Nº 18,700. (d) For each party primary or electoral pact, a separate record shall be drawn up, as referred to in Article 72 of the law Nº 18,700. For the purposes of the deployment of the preliminary tests to be carried out by the Electoral Service in accordance with Article 175 bis of the Law Nº 18,700 and for the Counting Colleges referred to in Article 95 of the same law, each primary shall be considered as primary or electoral pact as a separate election. Paragraph 7 of the Primary Election Rating Article 30.-A nominee for the final choice, in the case of the Presidential or Mayor's elections, that or those candidates who have obtained the largest vote individual. In the case of parliamentary elections and when political parties participate in the form referred to in points (a) or (b) of the second indent of Article 7, they shall be nominated as candidates for the final election in each electoral territory. the largest individual votes until the number of posts defined in the nomination declaration is completed in accordance with the first paragraph of Article 16. In the case of the parliamentary elections and when the political parties participate in an electoral pact in the form referred to in point (c) of the second paragraph of Article 7, the candidates nominated for the final election in each territory They shall be determined in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 109a of Law No 18,700, considering for these purposes a list of candidates of the same party and their associated independent candidates. Article 31.-The Qualifier of Elections shall proclaim as nominated candidates for the final election of President of the Republic or of Parliamentarians, in each electoral territory, the candidates of each political party or pact (a) the election of the candidate in the primary elections, in accordance with the provisions of the previous article. In the case of the primary elections for the nomination of candidates to the position of mayor, this proclamation shall correspond to the respective Regional Electoral Tribunal. Article 32.-In the case of the primary elections of President of the Republic and Parliamentarians, the qualification process and the determination of the nominated candidates must be completed within the next twenty-five days of the primary election, even in the event that claims for nullity or requests for rectification have been filed, pursuant to Articles 96and 97 of the law Nº 18,700. In the case of the mayoral primary elections, the qualification process and the determination of the nominated candidates must be completed within the next fifteen days of the primary election in the first instance, and within the twenty-five days after the primary election in case of appeal. The foregoing, even in the event that claims of nullity or requests for rectification have been filed, pursuant to the provisions of Articles 96 and 97 of the law Nº 18,700. Article 33.-In the case that the Qualifier of Elections or the Regional Electoral Tribunal, as appropriate, declare for any reason the nullity of a primary election, whether of President of the Republic, of Parliamentarians or of Mayors, this will not be able to repeat itself. In such a case, there shall be no candidates proclaimed as nominees, with the political parties or electoral covenants proceeding as referred to in Article 38 (a) or (b), as appropriate. Article 34.-The agreement of the Qualifier of Elections or the Regional Electoral Tribunal, as appropriate, for which each nominated candidate is proclaimed, shall be communicated in writing to the Electoral Service, to the political party that declared it as a candidate, or all political parties in the electoral pact who declared him as a candidate, if he corresponded, and the nominee. Paragraph 8 of the Binding Effects of Primary Elections Article 35.-Candidates nominated by the Qualifier of Elections or the Regional Electoral Tribunal, as appropriate, by virtue of a primary election, shall be considered by the Electoral Service as applications accepted for all legal purposes, must be entered in the register indicated in article 19 of the law Nº 18,700 and in article 116 of the law Nº 18,695, and may not be subject to claim. Article 36.-If in the primary election for the nomination of candidates to the posts of President of the Republic or of the mayor of a political party or electoral pact, a nominee nominee according to the indicated in the Article 30, other candidates who have participated in that primary election and who have not been nominated, shall not be candidates in the final election for the same office and electoral territory, nor the political party or electoral pact may declare other candidates. This is without prejudice to the derogation contained in Article 38. Article 37.-If, in the primary election for the nomination of candidates for the positions of members of a political party or electoral pact, they have been nominated as candidates, as provided for in Article 30, charges that you decided to submit to primary elections, in accordance with the second paragraph of Article 7 (2), the other candidates who have participated in that primary election and who have not been nominated, shall not be able to present themselves as candidates in the final election for the same office and electoral territory, nor the political party or electoral pact will be able to declare other candidates for the same electoral territory. This is without prejudice to the derogation contained in Article 38. Article 38.-If a candidate nominated in accordance with the provisions of Article 30, dies, or resigns from his candidacy by means of a statement made before a notary and submitted to the Electoral Service, after his nomination and before the date of the the declaration of applications referred to in Article 6 of Law No 18,700 and Article 107 of Law No 18,695 shall be as follows: (a) If it is a presidential candidate or mayor, the political party, the electoral pact and the parties that make it up, will be released to appoint their candidates, either individually or in an electoral pact, according to their statutes and the The provisions of the laws Nos 18,603, 18,700 and 18,695, which may in this case nominate any of the candidates who participated in the primary election, or another person if they so decide. b) If it is a candidate for the National Congress, the political party or the electoral pact will be released to designate the missing candidate, according to its statutes and the provisions of the laws Nos 18,603 and 18,700, and may in this case nominate to any of the candidates who participated in the primary election, or to another person, if they so decide. TITLE II DEADLINES Article 39.-The time limits for the days laid down in this law shall be for days. TITLE III OF ELECTORAL EXPENDITURE Article 40.-The primary elections shall be applicable to the provisions contained in law Nº 19,884, in all that is not contrary to this law and, as far as applicable, except as indicated in paragraph 2 of the Title II and the Final Title of that law, and considering the exceptions indicated in the following articles of this title. Article 41.-The term of the electoral campaign shall be understood as between the day that the deadline for declaring candidates for primary elections and that of the primary election expires. Article 42.-The limits to the electoral expenditure to be applied in the case of primary elections shall be equivalent to 10% of the values referred to in Article 4 ° of Law No 19,884, according to the type of election. Each candidate must make an affidavit of the electoral expenditure effected. In the case of the nominated candidates, the amount of the electoral expenditure actually carried out by the candidate will be reduced from the maximum authorized expenditure for the respective election. For the purposes of the limits of the contributions that constitute private financing of the campaigns, according to the article 9 ° of the aforementioned law, the primary elections will be considered part of the final election. Title IV Of the transmission of electoral propaganda by television channels Article 42a.-In the primary elections for the nomination of candidates for the office of President of the Republic, the television channels of free reception shall be For free 15 minutes per day of their broadcasts for election propaganda, the parties or pacts participating in the election shall be distributed equally in equal parts. For these purposes, television channels shall determine, in conjunction with the parties or pacts involved, the timetable for the transmission of the transmissions. In case of disagreement, the proposal of the channels must be approved by the National Television Council. The transmission of the electoral propaganda referred to in the preceding paragraph may only be carried out from the tenth eighth to the third day before that of the primary election. TITLE V OTHER PROVISIONS Article 43.-Substitute Article 137 of the Law N ° 18,700, Constitutional Organic on People's Voting and Scrutiny, by the following: " Article 137.-That in any popular, primary or final choice, request votes for pay, gift or promise of money or other reward or cohechare in any form to an elector, will suffer the lesser prison term in its middle grade, fine of 10 to 50 monthly tax units and the absolute disablement and perpetuates for the performance of public offices and offices. That in any popular, primary or final election, will sell your vote or vote for money or other handouts, you will suffer the lesser imprisonment in your minimum degree and fine of 1 to 3 monthly tax units. It shall be presumed that the voter who, in the act of defray, is caught using any procedure or means to record the preference that he or she may point out or has indicated in the cedula, has incurred this conduct. In any popular, primary or final election, it shall be presumed, in addition, that any of these conduct shall be incurred by the person who, after the transfer, shall accompany an elector to the table, except in the case of persons with disabilities who have opted for to be assisted in the act of voting, with the exception of cases of gross crime. " Article 44.-Reposition, in the second indent of Article 4 (1) of Law No 19,884, on the transparency, limit and control of electoral expenditure, the word "registered", the three times it appears, by "electors". This law shall begin to apply from the day of its publication, provided that at least 210 days before the date of the next general election. Otherwise it shall apply from the first day of the month following the last election. Article 2.-The fiscal expenditure that will irrogate the implementation of this initiative during the first year of its term, will be financed by reallocations from the budget of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security and, in faltare, from the Partida Tesoro Público. ' Article 3.-The political party that decides to submit to the system of primary elections referred to in the articles 3 and below of this law for the parliamentary electoral periods of the years 2017, 2021, 2025 and 2029 will only be able To submit to this procedure up to forty percent of the total number of candidates to be declared in the final election, whether or not they will be in an electoral pact. Having complied with the provisions of Article 93 (1) of the Constitution of the Republic of the Republic, and because I have had to approve and sanction it; therefore, promulgate and take effect as the Law of the Republic. Santiago, November 29, 2012.-SEBASTIAN PINERA ECHENIQUE, President of the Republic.-Cristian Larroulet Vignau, Secretary General of the Presidency.-Andres Chadwick Piñera, Minister of the Interior and Public Security.-Felipe Larraín Bascunan, Minister of Finance. What I transcribe to you for your knowledge.-Salute atte. Mr Sebastian Soto Velasco, Deputy Secretary-General of the Presidency (S). Constitutional Court Draft law establishing the Primary Elections System for the nomination of candidates for President of the Republic, Parliamentarians and Mayors. (Bulletin No 7911-06). The Secretariat of the Constitutional Court, who subscribes, certifies that the Honorable Chamber of Deputies sent the bill enunciated in the rubric, approved by the National Congress, so that this Tribunal, exercised the control of constitutionality with respect to the rules governing matters of the constitutional organic law which it contains, and which by judgment of 20 November 2012 in the cars Role No 2.324-12-CPR. It is resolved: 1. That the provisions contained in articles 1 to 3; 4th, except for its final point; 5th to 24; 25, except in the part that it has "; and will dictate the rules governing electoral propaganda, voting, scrutiny and, in general, everything "That relative to the election act"; 26 to 28; 30 to 43; 46; 47, and first transitory of the draft law referred to, are constitutional. 2. That the provision contained in the final paragraph of article 4 of the draft law referred to is constitutional, in the understanding that, for the purposes of the election of Mayors, the electoral territory comprises the territory of the commune or group of communes that are administered by the respective Municipality. 3rd. That the provisions contained in articles 25, in the part that it has "; and will dictate the rules governing the electoral propaganda, the vote, the scrutiny and, in general, all that concerning the election act "; 29, 44 and 45 of the draft law submitted, are They should be deleted from their text. 4º. That this Constitutional Court does not issue a pronouncement, in preventive examination of constitutionality, regarding the provision contained in the second transitory article of the draft law referred to, for not being such a precept of law Constitutional organic. Santiago, November 20, 2012.-Marta de la Fuente Olguin, Secretaría.