Article 10

The Constitution guarantees the parliamentary opposition a status conferring on it rights capable of enabling it to properly discharge its missions relating to parliamentary work and political life. It guarantees the opposition, in particular, the following rights: - freedom of opinion, expression and assembly; - airtime in public media, proportional to their representativeness; - benefit from public funding, in accordance with the provisions of the law; - effective participation in the legislative procedure, in particular by placing legislative proposals on the agenda of both Chambers of Parliament; - effective participation in monitoring government work, in particular through censure motions and the interpellation of the government, oral questions put to the government and parliamentary committees of inquiry; - contribution to the proposal of candidates and to the election of members of the Constitutional Court; - appropriate representation in the internal activities of both Chambers of Parliament; - the presidency of the commission responsible for legislation in the House of Representatives; - the provision to it of appropriate means to assume its institutional functions; - active participation in parliamentary diplomacy with a view to defending the just causes of the Nation and its vital interests; - contribution to the supervision and representation of citizens through the political parties that form it, in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 of this Constitution; - the exercise of power at the local, regional and national levels, through democratic alternation, and within the framework of the provisions of this Constitution. The opposition groups are required to make an active and constructive contribution to parliamentary work. The modalities for the exercise, by the opposition groups, of the aforementioned rights are fixed, as the case may be, by organic laws, by laws or by the rules of procedure of each Chamber of Parliament.