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Chapter II. Creation of a Political Party
Article 11. Methods of Creation of a Political Party
Article 12. Organizing Committee
Article 13. Activity of the Organizing Committee
Article 14. Constituent Congress of a Political Party or a Congress of an All-Russian Public Organization or an All-Russian Public Movement Convened to Transform Them Into a Political Party
Article 11. Methods of Creation of a Political Party
1. A political party shall be created freely, without permissions from any bodies of state power or any officials. A political party may be created at the constituent congress of the political party or by way of transformation of an All-Russian public organization or an All-Russian public movement into a political party at the congress of the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement.
2. A political party shall be deemed created as of the day on which the constituent congress adopts resolutions to create the political party, to form its regional branches in more than a half of the subjects of the Russian Federation, to adopt the statutes of the political party, to approve its program, to form the leading and supervisory-auditing bodies of the political party. Delegates to the constituent congress of a political party shall be the founders of the political party.
3. From the day of its formation, a political party shall conduct organizational, informational and propaganda activities connected with the formation of its regional branches and receipt of the state registration certificate of the political party..
4. When an All-Russian public organization or an All-Russian public movement is transformed into a political party, the congress of the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian movement shall adopt a resolution to transform the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement into a political party, to transform their regional branches in the subjects of the Russian Federation into regional branches of the political party, to adopt the statutes and the program of the political party and to form the leading and supervisory-auditing bodies of the political party.
5. When a political party is created by way of transformation of an All-Russian public organization or an All-Russian public movement into a political party, such political party shall be deemed created from the day on which a corresponding entry is made in the unified state register of legal entities.
Article 12. Organizing Committee
1. In order to prepare, convene and hold the constituent congress of a political party, the citizens of the Russian Federation, eligible for membership in a political party, shall set up an organizing committee consisting of not less than ten persons.
2. The organizing committee shall notify in writing the federal body of executive power authorized to carry out state registration of political parties (hereafter "federal registration body") of its intention to create a political party and shall indicate the suggested name of such party. The following shall be submitted to the federal registration body along with the said notification:
a) information about not less than ten members of the organizing committee (full names, dates of birth, citizenship, contact telephone);
b) the minutes of the meeting of the organizing committee indicating the purpose for which the committee has been formed; the period of its powers (not to exceed one year); its location; the procedure for disposition of funds and other property of the organizing committee; information about the commission's member authorized to open a settlement account in which the funds of the organizing committee are to be deposited and to conclude civil-law contracts in order to provide for its activity (hereafter "authorized representative of the organizing committee") (full name, date of birth, address of residence, citizenship, series and number of the passport or an equivalent identity paper, contact telephone).
3. On the day of receipt of the notification and other documents indicated in Clause 2 of this Article the federal registration body or its territorial agency (hereafter "territorial registration agency") shall issue to the authorized representative of the organizing committee a document confirming submission of these documents. .
4. Within a month upon receipt of the document indicated in Clause 3 of this Article the organizing committee shall publish an announcement in one of or several national newspapers or periodicals about its intention to create a political party and submission of the corresponding documents to the federal registration body.
Article 13. Activity of the Organizing Committee
1. The organizing committee shall regulate its activity as it sees fit. During the period of its powers the organizing committee shall hold the constituent congress of the political party. To do so, the organizing committee shall:
conduct organizational, informational and propaganda activities aimed at the formation of regional branches of the new political party in the subjects of the Russian Federation, including arrangements to hold meetings of supporters of the new political party at which delegates to the constituent congress of the political party are to be elected;
open a settlement account at one of the credit institutions of the Russian Federation through the authorized representative of the organizing committee and advise the federal registration body to this effect.
2. The funds of the organizing committee shall be made up of donations made to the political party in conformity with the requirements of Article 30 of this Federal Law.
3. The organizing committee shall cease its activity after the constituent congress of the political party. The funds and other property of the organizing committee and a financial statement on their use, indicating the sources of the funds and other property, shall be handed over to the newly created political party.
4. If, during the period of its powers, the organizing committee fails to hold the constituent congress of the political party, the organizing committee shall cease its activity upon expiration of this period. In this case, the remaining funds of the organizing committee shall be transferred to the donors pro rata to their donations and the other property shall be returned to the donors in kind. If this is impossible to do, the remaining funds and other property of the organizing committee shall be transferred to the budget revenues of the Russian Federation.
Article 14. Constituent Congress of a Political Party or a Congress of an All-Russian Public Organization or an All-Russian Public Movement Convened to Transform Them Into a Political Party
1. The information about the venue and date of the constituent congress of a political party or the congress of an All-Russian public organization or an All-Russian public movement convened to transform them into a political party shall be published by the organizing committee or the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement in Rossiiskaya Gazeta or in other national print media. The said information shall be published not later than one month prior to the date of convocation of the constituent congress of the political party or the congress of the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement convened to transform them into a political party.
Rossiiskaya Gazeta shall, free of charge, publish the information about the venue and date of the constituent congress of a political party or the congress of an All-Russian public organization or an All-Russian public movement convened to transform them into a political party within two weeks upon submission of this information to the newspaper.
2. The constituent congress of a political party shall be deemed to be legally competent if attended by delegates who represent more than a half of the subjects of the Russian Federation and reside in these subjects of the Russian Federation most of the time. The representation quota for the delegates to the constituent congress shall be fixed by the organizing committee so that each one of the said subjects of the Russian Federation shall be represented by not less than three delegates. Resolutions of the constituent congress of a political party, indicated in Clause 2, Article 11 of this Federal Law shall be adopted by a majority vote of the delegates to the constituent congress of the political party.
3. A resolution to transform an All-Russian public organization or an All-Russian public movement into a political party and other resolutions shall be adopted by the congress of the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement in compliance with their respective statutes. The congress of an All-Russian public organization or an All-Russian public movement shall be considered to be legally competent if attended by delegates who represent regional branches of the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement located in more than a half of the subjects of the Russian Federation and reside in these subjects of the Russian Federation most of the time. The representation quota for the delegates to the congress shall be fixed so that each one of the said regional branches shall be represented by not less than three delegates. When an All-Russian public organization or an All-Russian public movement is to be transformed into a political party formation of an organizing committee shall not be required.
4. After the constituent congress of a political party or the congress of an All-Russian public organization or an All-Russian public movement which adopted a resolution to transform the All-Russian public organization or the All-Russian public movement into a political party, the political party shall, within a month, submit basic provisions of its program for publication in Rossiiskaya Gazeta . Within a month upon submission of the said provisions, Rossiiskaya Gazeta shall, free of charge, publish the basic provisions of the program of the political party in the scope of not less than two hundred newspaper lines.
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