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Article 243
 

243.1. The expenses incurred by the political parties, the coalitions and their candidates in the electoral propaganda and the campaign activities cannot exceed the ceilings established by the General Council for each election.


243.2. For the purposes of this article, the following concepts will be included in the expenditure ceilings:


a) Propaganda expenses:



  1. Includes the ones incurred for fences, banners, leaflets, placards, sound systems, political events held in rented places, utilitarian propaganda and other similar;


b) Operative expenses of the campaign:



  1. Includes the wages and salaries of the temporary personnel, the occasional rental of movable assets and real estate, transportation expenses of material and personnel, travel allowances and other similar.


c) Propaganda expenses in newspapers, magazines and other printed media:



  1. Includes those made in any of these media, such as paid insertions, advertisements and similar, intended to obtain votes. In any case, both the contracting party and candidate and the printed media should clearly specify that it is paid propaganda or insertion.


d) Production expenses of the messages for radio and television:



  1. Includes those made for the payment of professional services; use of technical equipment, locations or recording and production studios, as well as the others related to the same objective.


243.3. The expenses incurred by the parties for their ordinary operation and for the maintenance of their management bodies and their organizations are not included in the campaign expenditure ceiling.


243.4. The General Council, in the establishment of the campaign expenditure ceiling, will apply the following rules:


a) For the election of the President of the United Mexican States, no later than the last day of October of the year prior to that of the election, it will proceed in the following terms:



  1. The maximum campaign expenditure ceiling will be equivalent to twenty percent of the public campaign financing established for all the parties in the year of the presidential election, and


b) For the election of representatives and senators, no later than the last day of December of the year of the election. it will proceed in the following terms:



  1. The maximum campaign expenditure ceiling for the election of representatives by the principle of plurality will be the amount which results after dividing the campaign expenditure ceiling established for the presidential election by three hundred. For the year in which only the House of Representatives is renewed, the amount referred to in this faction will be updated with the index of the increase in the daily minimum wage in the Federal District, and

  2. For each formula in the election of senators by the principle of plurality, the maximum campaign expenditure ceiling will be the amount which results from multiplying the sum of the campaign expenditure ceiling for the election of representatives by the number of districts that the corresponding entity has. The number of districts considered will under no circumstances be higher than twenty.