229.1. No later than in the month of October of the year prior to that of the election, the General Council will establish the expenditure ceilings by precandidate and the type of election that he aims to be nominated for. The ceiling will be equivalent to twenty percent of the one established for the previous campaigns, according to the election in question.

229.2. The General Council will, at the proposal of the Auditing Unit of the Resources of the Political Parties, establish the requirements that each pre-candidate should meet when presenting the pre-campaign income and expenditure report. In any case, the respective report should be delivered to the competent internal body of the party no later than seven days after the internal Election Day or the session of the respective assembly.

229.3. If a pre-candidate fails to comply with the obligation to deliver the precampaign income and expenditure report within the previously established period and has obtained the majority of the votes in the internal consultation or in the respective assembly, this person cannot be legally registered as a candidate. The pre-candidates that, without having obtained the nomination for the candidacy, do not deliver the previously mentioned report will be punished in the terms of the provisions of the Eighth Book of this Law.

229.4. The pre-candidates that exceed the pre-campaign expenditure ceilings established by the General Council will be punished with the cancellation of their registration or, where applicable, with the loss of the candidacy that they have obtained. In the last case, the parties maintain the right to make the corresponding substitutions.