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Article 51
 

1. The political parties have the right to public f nancing for their activities, structure, wages and salaries, independently of the other prerogatives granted in this Law, in accordance with the following provisions: a) For the maintenance of ordinary permanent activities:



  1. The General Council, in the case of the national political parties, or the Local Public Body, in the case of the local political parties, will annually determine the total amount to be distributed among the political parties in accordance with the following: it will multiply the total number of citizens registered in the federal or local registry of voters, according to the case, at the cut-off date of July of each year, by sixty-f ve percent of the minimum wage in force in the Federal District for the national political parties, or of the minimum wage of the region in which the state is located for the case of the local political parties;

  2. The result of the operation set out in the previous section makes up the annual public financing of the political parties for their ordinary permanent activities and it will distributed in the manner established by section a) of Basis II of article 41 of the Constitution;

  3. The quantities that, where applicable, are determined for each party will be delivered in monthly installments according to the budgetary calendar that is approved annually;

  4. Every political party should annually allocate at least two percent of the public financing that they receive for the development of specif c activities referred to in subparagraph c) of this article, and

  5. Every political party should annually allocate three percent of the ordinary public financing for the training, promotion and development of the political leadership of women.


b) For Campaign expenses:



  1. In the year of the election in which the federal or local Executive Branch and the two Chambers of the Congress of the Union or the Chamber of a state are renewed, each national or local political party, as applies, will receive an amount equivalent to fifty percent of the public financing for the maintenance of the ordinary permanent activities corresponding to it in that year for campaign expenses;

  2. In the year of the election in which only the federal House of Representatives or the Chambers of the states are renewed, each national or local political party, respectively, will receive an amount equivalent to thirty percent of the public f nancing for the maintenance of the ordinary permanent activities corresponding to it in that year for campaign expenses, and

  3. The campaign financing will be administered in its entirety by the political parties; establishing the distribution according to the provisions of this Law; being required to inform the Auditing Commission of the distribution ten days before the beginning of the electoral campaign, and this Commission will notify the General Council of the Institute in the next session, without these distribution percentages being able to be modified.


c) For specific activities as public interest entities:



  1. The political education and training, socioeconomic and political research as well as the editorial tasks of the national political parties will be supported by public financing with a total amount equivalent to three percent of the amount corresponding to them in the same year for the ordinary activities referred to in subparagraph a) of this article; the amount will be distributed in the terms established in section II of the mentioned subparagraph;

  2. The General Council will, through the Technical Unit, monitor that the political parties use the financing referred to in this subparagraph exclusively for the activities mentioned in the previous section, and III. The quantities that, where applicable, are determined for each party will be delivered in monthly installments according to the budgetary calendar that is approved annually;


2 . The political parties that obtained their registration after the last election, or those that having kept their legal registration are not represented in any of the Chambers of the Congress of the Union, or in the local Congress in the case of the local parties, will have the right to receive public financing according to the following criteria:


a) Every political party will receive two percent of the total financing that corresponds to the political parties for the maintenance of their ordinary permanent activities referred to in this article, as well as, in the year of the election in question, the financing for campaign expenses that corresponds in accordance with the established in subparagraph b) of paragraph 1 of this article, and


b) They will partake of the public financing for specific activities as public interest entities only in the part that is distributed equally.


3. The quantities referred to in subparagraph a) of the previous paragraph will be provided in the proportional part corresponding to the annual f nancing, as of the date in which the registration takes effect and taking into account the budgetary calendar approved for that year.