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1. Political parties, which are entered on the Register of Legal Entities in accordance with the procedure laid down by the law and which satisfy statutory requirements regarding the number of political party's members and the restructuring or liquidation procedure has not been initiated in respect of them, shall be entitled to state budget appropriations to fund activities of the political party.
2. State budget appropriations designated for funding activities of the political party shall be allocated to those political parties satisfying the criteria set out in paragraph 1 of this Article which received not less than 3 per cent of all the votes cast by the voters for the candidates of the political parties in those elections to the Seimas, municipal councils, the European Parliament according to the results of which these state budget appropriations are allocated.
3. State budget appropriations designated for funding activities of political parties shall be allocated according to the valid results of the elections to the Seimas, municipal councils, the European Parliament (rerun election, by-election and run-off voting) in which the powers of the elected candidates have not been terminated or upon their termination a vacant place was occupied without holding elections:
1) according to the results of the last elections to the Seimas, municipal councils, the European Parliament in multi- member constituencies. In the event where the nominated list of candidates is coalitional, the number of the received votes shall be distributed to the political parties in proportion to the number of the candidates on the coalition list;
2) according to the results of the last election, the last rerun election, last by-election to the Seimas in single-member constituencies. If several political parties nominated a candidate, the votes received by the candidate shall be equally distributed among the political parties which nominated him;
3) according to the results of the last run-off voting in single-member constituencies of the election to the Seimas. If upon the election of a Seimas member at the election, rerun election or by-election the run-off voting has not been held, then the results of the last election, rerun election or by-election in the particular single-member constituency shall be taken instead of the results of the run-off voting. If several political parties nominated a candidate, the votes received by the candidate shall be distributed equally among the political parties which nominated him.
4. The amount of state budget appropriations for funding activities of a political party, which is allocated for that political party, shall be determined in accordance with the following procedure:
1) by summing up only the votes of voters cast for the candidates of those political parties for which state budget appropriations may be allocated under paragraph 2 of this Article for funding activities of the political party, the number of all votes is determined;
2) a six-month financial coefficient of one voter's vote is established by dividing the half of the state budget appropriations designated for funding activities of the political party by the number of votes of all the voters;
3) the six-month appropriations of the state budget allocated for the political party to fund activities of the political party is determined by multiplying a six-month financial coefficient of one voter's vote by the number of votes of the voters who cast their votes for the candidates of this political party.
5. The amount of state budget appropriations allocated for the political party to fund activities of the political party shall be determined by the Central Electoral Commission in accordance with the procedure laid down by this Article; the Commission shall, not later than by 15 April and 15 November of each year, transfer the said amount to the political party's account of state budget appropriations.