Earlier Article 81(7) allowed presidential candidates, and through application of Article 113 also parties and party alliances running in National Assembly elections, winning more than 25 per cent of the votes to be reimbursed 50 per cent of their campaign costs. Currently no provisions exist to reimburse costs incurred in a campaign for presidential candidates or parties and party alliances running in National Assembly elections. If measures to reimburse campaign expenditures are reintroduced, they should be implemented in a balanced way. Such measures could give candidates and parties with some minimum support (possibly less than the previous 25 per cent) access to state funds, for example in accordance with the election result.
