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Article 132
 

Statement of election accounts


1. From the call of the election until the hundredth day after the poll, the Central Electoral Commission and Provincial Commissions shall ensure compliance with the rules laid down under the foregoing sections of this Chapter.


2. They may to this end require at any moment banking institutions and savings banks to provide statements of election accounts, the number and identity of payers and any other information the Commissions may deem necessary for the discharge of their auditing functions.


3. They may also require election managers to provide the accountancy information they deem necessary and they shall answer in writing any consultation made to them by said managers.


4. Where their investigations bring to light a type of conduct that may be constitutive of an electoral offence, the Commissions shall inform the Public Prosecutor’s Office for the institution by the latter of the appropriate proceedings. The Commissions themselves shall punish infringements in these matters under Section 153 of this Act.


5. The Commissions shall equally notify the Auditing Court of the result of their own monitoring activity.


 1 TO 3 AS AMENDED BY SECT. 7.3 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 13/1994, OF MARCH 30