6. Government regulations shall take the form of regulatory decrees when so required by the law they regulate, as well as in the case of independent regulations. 7. Regulations shall make express mention of the laws which they are intended to regulate, or which define the subjective and objective competence to issue them. 8. The transposition of European Union legal acts into the internal legal order shall take the form of a law, an executive law, or, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (4), a regional legislative decree. Article 113 (General principles of electoral law) 1. Direct, secret and periodic suffrage is the general rule for the appointment of the officeholders of the elected entities that exercise sovereignty, elected organs of autonomous regions and elected local government organs. 2. Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles 15(4) and (5) and 121(2), electoral registration is conducted at the initiative of the citizen and is compulsory and permanent, and there is a single registration system for all elections that are held by direct, universal suffrage. 3. Election campaigns are governed by the following principles: a) Freedom of propaganda; b) Equal opportunities and treatment for all candidatures; c) The impartiality of public entities towards all candidatures; d) The transparency and scrutiny of electoral accounts. 4. Citizens are under a duty to cooperate with the electoral administration in the forms laid down by law. 5. Votes are converted into seats in harmony with the principle of proportional representation. 6. Any act that dissolves a collegial organ that is based on direct suffrage must also set the date of the new election thereto, which shall take place within the following sixty days and in accordance with the electoral law that is in force at the time of the dissolution, failing which the electoral act shall be legally nugatory. 7. The competence to judge the correctness and validity of electoral procedural acts pertains to the courts. Article 114 (Political parties and right of opposition) 1. Political parties hold seats in entities and organs that are based on universal, direct suffrage in accordance with their proportion of election results. 2. Minorities are accorded the right of democratic opposition, as laid down in the Constitution and the law. 3. Political parties that hold seats in the Assembly of the Republic and do not form part of the Government particularly have the right to be regularly and directly informed by the Government about the situation and progress of the main matters of public interest. Political parties that hold seats in Legislative