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One. The state shall grant political parties with representation in the Congress of Deputies unconditioned annual subsidies to meet their operating expenses, which shall be charged to the national budgets.
Likewise, an annual allocation may be included in the national budgets to meet the security expenses incurred by political parties in performing their political and institutional activity.
Two. These subsidies are to be distributed according to the number of seats and votes obtained by each political party in the most recent elections to the Congress of Deputies.
To assign the above-mentioned subsidies, the respective budget allocation shall be divided into three equal amounts. One is to be distributed in proportion to the number of seats obtained by each political party in the most recent elections to the Congress of Deputies, and the other two are to be divided in proportion to all the votes obtained by each party in said elections.
Three. Likewise, the autonomous regions may grant political parties with representation in their respective legislative assemblies unconditioned annual subsidies to meet their operating expenses, which shall be charged to their respective autonomous region budgets.
These subsidies are to be distributed according to the number of seats and votes obtained by each political party in the most recent elections to the above-mentioned legislative assemblies, in proportion to and in accordance with the criteria established in the respective autonomous region legislation.
The subsidies referred to in this section may also be granted by the historical Basque territories.
Four. The subsidies referred to in the previous points shall be incompatible with any other economic or financial support included in the national budgets, the budgets of the autonomous regions or those of the historical Basque territories destined to the operation of political parties, except those mentioned in point one of article 2 of this Law.
Five. Once a procedure to ban a political party has been initiated under that established in article 11.2 of Organic Law 6/2002 of 27 June, on political parties, the judicial authority, on the suggestion of the Minister of the Interior, may decide, as a precautionary measure, to suspend the payment of public funding to the political party concerned, regardless of the type or nature of the funding.