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(1) A party is an organisation that is established in order to perform political activities, to participate in election campaigns, to nominate candidates for deputy positions, to participate in the work of the Saeima, local government councils (parish councils) or the European Parliament, to implement the party programme with the intermediation of deputies, as well as to be involved in the establishment of public administrative bodies.
(2) In order to mutually co-ordinate activities and achieve the objectives specified in the statutes, several parties, according to the procedures specified by this Law, may establish a party alliance on the basis of an aggregate of objectives. A party may concurrently only be in one registered party alliance. The provisions of this Law regarding parties shall be applicable to party alliances, insofar as it does not determine otherwise.