The Pre-Election Fund of the Candidate for Deputy and the Party
1. The candidate for the deputy and the party that has nominated an electoral list for the National Assembly proportional elections, for the purpose of conducting pre-election campaign, can establish a pre-election fund on the name of their plenipotentiary representative, which is formed from voluntary contributions set forth in Article 25 of this Code.
2. A candidate has the right to make a contribution to his/her own pre-election fund in the amount 1,000 times the minimum salary of the Republic of Armenia, and a party – in the amount of 2,000 times the minimum salary.
Party alliances do not make payments to candidate’s campaign funds.
3. Each physical person can make a voluntary contribution to pre-electoral funds of candidates and parties, in the amount of up to fifty times the minimum salary, and each legal person – up to 150 times the minimum salary.
4. During the pre-election campaign a candidate has the right to spend an amount not exceeding 5,000 times the minimum salary, and a party – an amount not exceeding 60,000 times the minimum salary.
5. Candidates for deputies of the National Assembly and parties, registered in the procedure established by this Code to run in the elections of the National Assembly, for the purpose of conducting pre-election campaign have the right to use the means of their pre-election funds only.
(Amend. of March 23, 1999 LA-286; July 31, 2002 LA-406-P)
