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The funds referred to in Article 7 of this Act shall be distributed in the following manner: an equal amount of funds per each Member of the Croatian Parliament shall be determined, and a single political party shall be entitled to funds in proportion to the number of its Members of Parliament when the Croatian Parliament is constituted.
If a Member of Parliament or several Members of Parliament abandon the party or change their party affiliation, the funds distributed in line with paragraph 1 of this Article shall be retained by the political party to which the Member of Parliament belonged when the Croatian Parliament was constituted.
Should two or more political parties merge, the funds distributed in line with paragraph 1 of this Article shall be retained by the political party which is the legal successor of the political parties which ceased to exist with their merging.