Generally, according to the Constitution, political parties shall participate in the formation and exercise of the political will of the people (see Article 3 (4) of the Constitution). Moreover, in their definition of political parties, the OSCE/ODIHR-Venice Commission Guidelines on Political Party Regulation stress that a political party is “a free association of individuals, one of the aims of which is to express the political will of the people, by seeking to participate in and influence the governing of a country, inter alia, through the presentation of candidates in elections”. The participation in parliamentary activities at the national level is thus not the only purpose of political parties, as can also be seen by the fact that the threshold for receiving public funding is the number of votes that a political party receives, not the number of parliamentary seats that it garners.