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(1) Political parties receive, according to the law, annual subsidies from the state budget. The monthly subsidy shall be transferred to the account of each political party through the General Secretariat of Government's budget and reflected separately in bookkeeping documents. (2) The amount annually allocated for political parties cannot be greater than 0.04% of state's budget revenues. (3) The political parties that have representatives in the Parliament at the beginning of its activity, at least in a Chamber, shall receive a basic subvention. The total amount of subventions represent one third of the budgetary subventions allocated to political parties. (4) Political parties represented in Parliament shall receive a subsidy proportional to the number of obtained seats. The amount for a seat is calculated by dividing the remaining two thirds of the state budget subventions for political parties to the total number of MPs. (5) The total amount of subventions paid from the state budget to a political party, after these operations cannot exceed 5 times the basic subvention. (6) The political parties without parliamentary seats, but won less than 1% below the election threshold, shall receive equal subventions to be determined by dividing the unused amount, according to par. (5) to the number of respective political parties. The total amount awarded to non-parliamentary political parties cannot be higher than a basic subvention. (7) The amounts unused after redistribution, according to par. (6) shall be distributed to the parliamentary political parties proportionally to the number of seats. (8) At the end of financial year, the unused amounts shall be reported in the next year.
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