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1. When formal defects are found in the founding charter or the accompanying documentation, or when the promoters lack capacity, the Ministry of the Interior will make it known to the interested parties so that they may rectify such defects. In this case, the registration period will be suspended as of the moment of the notification and will be resumed again once the defects are duly corrected.
2. When reasonable grounds for suspicion of criminal unlawfulness are found in the documentation presented, the Ministry of the Interior will make it known to the Public Prosecutor's Office within the twenty-day period referred to in the previous article, by means of a properly reasoned decision accompanied by the available items of evidence.
3. Within a period of twenty days from receipt of the communication referred to in the previous section, depending on whether or not it finds that there is sufficient evidence of criminal unlawfulness, the Public Prosecutor's Office will decide to take the necessary legal action in the criminal jurisdiction or to return the communication to the Ministry of the Interior so that it may go ahead with the registration.
4. The communication to the Public Prosecutor's Office by the Ministry of the Interior will mean the suspension of the period established in section 2 of the previous article until the communication alleging insufficient evidence of criminal unlawfulness is returned to the Ministry of the Interior or until the Criminal Judge adopts a decision on the appropriateness of the registration or, as the case may be, as a precautionary measure, on the provisional resumption of the registration period. The communication and the respective suspension of the registration period will be immediately notified to the interested promoters.
5. The administrative proceedings associated with the registration of the political party may be appealed in the contentious-administrative jurisdiction, in accordance with the provisions of the Law on the Contentious-Administrative Jurisdiction.
6. When endeavouring to register in the Register of Political Parties a political party which seeks to continue or succeed the activity of another political party declared illegal and dissolved, action will be taken against that party in accordance with that set forth in article 12 of this Organic Law.