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A political party shall be formed as resolved by its constituent convention (conference, meeting). The resolution shall be supported by at least ten thousand signatures on the part of Ukrainian citizens with a right to vote during elections, [which signatures are to be] collected in at least two-thirds of the districts of at least two-thirds of the administrative regions [oblasts] of Ukraine and in the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol, and the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.
The constituent convention (conference, meeting) of a political party shall adopt its statute and programme, and shall elect its executive and supervisory-auditing bodies.
A political party shall start operating only after being [officially] registered. Unregistered political parties shall not be allowed to operate.