1. Politics in the Republic of Bulgaria shall be foundes on the principles of political plurality. 

2. No political party or ideology shall be proclaimed or affirmed as a party or ideology of the state. 

3. All parties shall facilitate the formation and expression of the citizen's political will. The procedure applying to the formation and dissolution of political parties and the conditions pertaining to their activity shall be established by a law. 

4. There sahll be no political parties on ethnic, raical or religious lines, nor parties which seek the violent usurpation of state power.