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Article 56
 

1. The financing that does not come from public funds will have the following modalities:


a) The independent or mandatory, ordinary or extraordinary, contributions or fees provided by the members, in cash or in kind, to the political parties;


b) The voluntary and personal contributions, in cash or in kind, that the precandidates and candidates provide exclusively for their pre-campaigns and campaigns, and


c) The voluntary and personal contributions that the supporters provide during the federal and local electoral processes, and this will include the contributions or donations, in cash or in kind, made to the political parties on a free and voluntary bases by Mexican natural persons residing in the country.


2. The private financing will be adjusted to the following annual limits: In the case of contributions from members, two percent of the public f nancing given to all the political parties for the maintenance of their ordinary activities and pre-campaigns in the year in question;


a) In the case of contributions from candidates, as well as from supporters during the electoral processes, to be used in the campaigns of their candidates, ten percent of the expenditure ceiling for the immediately previous presidential election;


b) Every political party, through the body established in article 43, subparagraph


c), of this Law, will freely determine the minimum and maximum amounts and the regularity of the ordinary and extraordinary fees of their members, as well as the voluntary and personal contributions that the pre-candidates and candidates provide exclusively for their pre-campaigns and campaigns, and c) The contributions of supporters will have an individual annual limit of 0.5 percent of the expenditure ceiling for the immediately previous presidential election.


3. The political parties should issue numbered receipts in which they record the full name and address, voter code and, where applicable, the Federal Taxpayer Register number3 of the donor. In the event that the contribution is made by check or bank transfer, the transferring account should be in the name of the donor. The contributions or fees should invariably be deposited in bank accounts in the name of the political party, in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations.


4. The contributions in kind will be recorded in a contract by the political party and the donor, which must specify the unit value of the provided goods and services, the total amount of the contribution and, where applicable, the number of units provided; likewise, an invoice that specif es the form of payment should be appended; in accordance with the provisions of article 29 A, section VII, subsection c), of the Tax Code of the Federation.


5. The political party should deliver a monthly list of the names of the donors and, where applicable, the transferring accounts of the resource that by necessity must be in the name of the person who made the contribution.


6. The contributions of movable assets and real estate should only be used for the fulf llment of the aims of the political party that was benefitted by the contribution.