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(1) Political parties and movements are established through registration or as a result of conditions replacing registration (Article 8, Sections 4 and 6, and Article 21).
(2) Proposals for registration of political parties or movements (hereinafter only "registration proposal") are submitted by preparatory committees of political parties and movements having at least three members (hereinafter only "preparatory committee"). Preparatory committees are only entitled to carry out activities whose objective is to establish a political party or movement. Only citizens older than 18 years of age may become members of a preparatory committee. Every registration proposal must be signed by all members of the preparatory committee stating their first names, surnames, dates of birth and permanent addresses. It is also necessary to state which member of the preparatory committee is entitled to act on its behalf. The following information and documents must be attached to every registration proposal:
a) a petition signed by at least one thousand citizens requesting that the political party or movement be registered; when signing the petition, each citizen is obligated to state his/her first name and surname, date of birth and permanent address,
b) two copies of the statutes (organisational rules) featuring:
1. the name and abbreviation of the political party or movement,
2. registered office,
3. programme objectives,
4. the rights and obligations of its members,
5. characterisation of organisational units, if they are to be established, especially the extent to which they are entitled to acquire, manage and dispose of assets or other property rights on behalf of the political party or movement and to what extent they are entitled to act and accept obligations on behalf of the political party or movement,
6. bodies, including statutory, arbitration and auditing bodies, the way they are established and the extent of their competencies,
7. the way individual statutory bodies act and sign and whether and to what extent other members or employees can take legal steps on behalf of the political party or movement,
8. economic management principles,
9. the way of calculation of membership fees, if the members are obligated to pay them; if the amount of membership fee of any member totals more than CZK 50,000 a year, the political party or movement is obligated to state this fact, together with the member's identification details, in an appendix to its annual financial report in compliance with Article 18, Section 1,
10. the way of settlement of a possible asset balance resulting from liquidation of assets and liabilities if the political party or movement is dissolved, unless such a balance escheats to the state (Article 13, Section 7).
(3) The name and abbreviation of a new political party or movement must differ distinctively from the names and abbreviations of other political parties and movements already existing and operating in the territory of the Czech Republic in order to prevent confusion.
(4) Every political party or movement must have its registered office in the territory of the Czech Republic.
(5) Unless specified otherwise in its statutes, a new political party or movement shall be represented by its preparatory committee until the bodies defined in Article 2, Section b), Subsection 6 are appointed. These have to be appointed no later than 6 months after the establishment of the political party or movement. If the bodies are not appointed within the said period of time, the Ministry of the Interior (hereinafter only the "Ministry") shall initiate proceedings suspending all activities of the political party or movement (Article 14).