Federal Act on Political Rights

¹A polit­ic­al party may be of­fi­cially re­gistered with the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery:

a.

if it has the leg­al form of an as­so­ci­ation in terms of Art­icles 60-79 of the Swiss Civil Code ¹; and

b.

if it is rep­res­en­ted in the same name by at least one mem­ber in the Na­tion­al Coun­cil or by at least three mem­bers in each of any three can­ton­al par­lia­ments.

²For entry in the Re­gister of Polit­ic­al Parties, the as­so­ci­ation shall file the fol­low­ing doc­u­ments and in­form­a­tion with the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery:

a.

a copy of its leg­ally val­id con­sti­tu­tion;

b.

the name and headquar­ters of the party in ac­cord­ance with the con­sti­tu­tion;

c.

the names and ad­dresses of the pres­id­ent and sec­ret­ary of the na­tion­al party.

³The Fed­er­al Chan­cellery shall main­tain a re­gister of the in­form­a­tion filed by polit­ic­al parties. This shall be a pub­lic re­gister. The Fed­er­al As­sembly shall en­act an or­din­ance to reg­u­late the de­tails of the re­gister.