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Article 14 Any person has the right to freely constitute associations, under reserve of conforming themselves to the law. This same right is recognized for the creation of political parties. The conditions of their creation are determined by a law on political parties and their financing. The associations and the political parties that jeopardize the unity of the Nation and the republican principles, and that advocate totalitarianism or segregation of ethnic, tribal or religious character, are prohibited. The parties and political organizations participate in the expression of the suffrage. The Constitution guarantees the right of democratic opposition. After each legislative election, the political groups of the opposition appoint a head of the opposition. In default of agreement, the head of the political group of the opposition having obtained the greatest number of the suffrage expressed at the moment of the vote is considered as the official head of the opposition. The status of the opposition and of the parties of the opposition, recognized by this Constitution and giving them notably an institutional framework to express themselves, is determined by the law.