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REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

POLITICAL PARTIES ACT

Promulgated State Gazette No. 29/10.04.1990

Amended - SG No. 87/1990, 59/1996 & 59/1998; Correction SG No. 89/1990

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Article 3

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(2) A political party may not be established when:

1. its activities are aimed against the sovereignty or territorial integrity of the country and the unity of the nation, against the rights and the freedoms of the citizens;

2. its goals run contrary to the Constitution and the legislation of the country;

3. it is based on a confessional or an ethnic principle or purports to fan up racial, national, ethnic and religious enmity;

4. it proclaims a fascist ideology or is striving to achieve its goals through violence or other legally impermissible means.

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Article 5

The political parties shall pursue their activities in the country in the Bulgarian language.

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Article 8

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(2) The political party may not use in its symbols the national state emblem and flag of the Republic of Bulgaria or of foreign states, as well as religious symbols and images.

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This Act was submitted to a vote and duly adopted by the Ninth National Assembly at its 16th session, 5th sitting, held on April 3, 1990, and the State Seal was affixed hereto.

Chairman of the National Assembly: Stanko Todorov


Source: Bulgarian Legal Information
http://www.bild.net/bglegal.htm


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