1. Coalitions of parties for electoral purposes must be registered by the Constitutional Court, and notified to such Court up to actual delivery of candidature papers in a document jointly signed by the competent bodies of the respective parties, with an indication of the parties denominations, abbreviations and symbols; coalitions also have to be announced within the same time limit in two of the most widely read daily newspapers.

2. Coalitions cease to exist as soon as the definitive result of the elections is publicly announced, but can turn into coalitions of political parties, under the terms and for the purposes of that stipulated in article 12 of Decree-Law 595/74, of 7 November.

3. The stipulation no. 3 of article 12 of Decree-Law 595/74, of 7 November is applicable to party coalitions for electoral purposes.