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The request for entry in the register of political parties shall be rejected if the name is not clearly different from the names of some already registered political parties. If the Ministry competent for administrative affairs receives two or several applications for registration of a political party with the same name, the application for the registration of a political party that was the first to submit the application shall be approved. The name of a political party must be in the Croatian language. The name of a political party may be entered in the register of political parties as a name translated in one or several foreign languages, so that the name written in the Croatian language shall be first written. Besides the full name of a political party, a short name that must contain a characteristic part of the name of a political party may be used. The short name is entered in the register of political parties. The name and the short name shall be used by the political parties in the form and in contents as they are entered in the register of political parties. If besides the name or the short name in the register of political parties there is a name or a short name translated in a foreign language that is entered, the name or the short name of a political party in a foreign language may be used only together with the name in the Croatian language. The name or the short name of a political party in a foreign language must not be written with letters larger or more distinguished than the writing in the Croatian language.