Disposiciones transitorias. Y finales

Any amendment made to the present Law after an electoral process has been called and before its result is known or those elected take office shall not be applicable to such process.

Electoral Updating and Modernization Commission. Upon conclusion of the electoral process, the Electoral Updating and Modernization Commission shall be established, whose objective is to evaluate the concluded electoral process and, if necessary, to submit such proposals for reforms to this Law as may be appropriate.

Social, academic and political organizations may submit their proposals to the Commission.

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal, if appropriate, shall submit the corresponding bill before the Congress of the Republic, which shall consider the same prior to the end of the first ordinary period of the new legislature.”

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The national party agents accredited by the political organizations before the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, in the performance of their functions, shall earn per diems, which shall be fixed by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal within the budget assigned to it in this law.

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal shall amend the regulation of this law to adapt it to the amendments introduced by this reform decree.

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal, its dependencies and other electoral organs established by this law, shall enjoy a franchise in the state communication media.

From the issuance of the decree calling elections, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal shall have priority in the use of the time corresponding to the State in private social communication media.

The headings preceding the articles of this law have no interpretative validity.

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal shall retain its current composition until the new members thereof are elected in accordance with this law, within a period of not less than thirty months.

The political parties that participated in the general elections of November 3, 1985 and that obtained more than four percent of the valid votes, or those that obtained representation before the Congress of the Republic, shall remain definitively registered, and must conform, with respect to organization and number of affiliates, to the provisions of this law. Furthermore, in accordance with Article 17 of the transitory and final provisions of the Political Constitution of the Republic of Guatemala, the rights established in subsection f) of Article 20 of this law are recognized to them.

The persons who intervened in the processing and notarial legalization of documents for the registration of the committees for the formation of political parties and that of the political parties prior to the elections of November 3, 1985, are exonerated from all types of liability, with the exception of the act of holding the respective national assemblies carried out by each of the political parties that participated in said elections; therefore the files or proceedings that may have been initiated in this regard shall be archived or dismissed, as the case may be.

This Law shall enter into force on the fourteenth day of January, nineteen hundred eighty-six, and shall be published in the Official Gazette.

New Article. Transitional. Political parties, in order to comply with the new number of affiliates referred to in Article 8 of this Decree, and to establish the liquidation procedure referred to in Article 63 of the Electoral and Political Parties Law, shall have a time limit of twenty-four months from when the present Decree enters into force.

*New Transitional Article 150 introduced by Decree 10-04 of the Congress of the Republic.

Transitional. Personal Identification Document. All matters relating to the Personal Identification Document shall be regulated by the ordinary law on the matter, which shall create the institution that shall be integrated, among others, by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, and which shall issue and administer said document, setting for the Congress of the Republic a time limit of ninety days after this Decree enters into force, for it to issue it”

*New Transitional Article 151 introduced by Decree 10-04 of the Congress of the Republic.

Transitional. The provisions contained in Article 19 of this law shall not apply to the committees for the formation of political parties that have initiated their procedure before the corresponding authority on a date prior to the entry into force of these reforms, and they shall continue their procedure in accordance with the law governing at the time of initiating their application for registration.

*New Transitional Article 152 introduced by Decree 10-04 of the Congress of the Republic.

This Decree was approved with the favorable vote of more than two-thirds of the total number of deputies comprising the Congress of the Republic and shall enter into force on the same day of its publication in the official gazette.