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(1) The political parties shall receive yearly subsidies from the State budget, under the terms of the law. The subsidy shall be transferred monthly to the account of each political party through the budget of the Government's Secretariat-General.
(2) The sum allocated yearly to political parties may not be greater than 0.04 per cent of the State budget income.
(3) Political parties which are represented at the beginning of the legislature by a 'parliamentary group at least in one Chamber shall receive a basic subsidy. The total of basic subsidies shall represent one third of the budgetary subsidies allocated to political parties.
(4) Political parties represented in Parliament shall also receive a subsidy in proportion to the number of mandates obtained. The sum due for one mandate shall be established by dividing the remaining two thirds of the subsidies from the State budget for political parties by the total number of parliamentarians.
(5) The total subsidy granted from the State budget to a political party after these operations may not exceed five times the basic subsidy.
(6) Political parties having no parliamentary mandates, but having obtained at least two per cent of the votes cast, shall receive equal subsidies, which shall be established by dividing the unconsumed sum, according to the provisions under paragraph (5), by thee number of the respective political parties. The total sum granted to non-parliamentary parties may not be greater than a basic subsidy.
(7) The sums unconsumed by redistribution, according to the provisions under paragraph (6) shall be distributed to the parliamentary political parties in proportion to the number of mandates.
(8) The sums unconsumed at the end of the financial year shall be carried forward to the next year.