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Article 79
 

1. The political parties should present pre-campaign and campaign reports, according to the following rules:


a) Pre-campaign reports:



  1. They should be presented by the political parties for each of the pre-candidates for candidatures for elective offices registered for each type of pre-campaign, specifying the source and amount of the incomes, as well as the expenses incurred;

  2. The candidates and pre-candidates are jointly responsible for the compliance of the campaign and pre-campaign reports. For this purpose, the violations they incur will be analyzed separately;

  3. The reports should be presented no later than ten days after the end of the pre-campaigns;

  4. The costs of the organization of the internal processes for the selection of pre-candidates incurred by the political parties will be reported in the corresponding annual report, and

  5. All propaganda placed in the period of the pre-campaigns and that remain in public thoroughfares after the end of this process or, where applicable, after the party nominates its candidates, especially propaganda that contains a picture, the name, surnames, epithet or nickname of the winning pre-candidate in the internal process, will be considered as campaign expenses of this candidate, which should be reported in the corresponding reports.


b) Campaign reports:



  1. They should be presented by the political parties for each of the campaigns in the respective elections, specifying the expenditures incurred by the political party and the candidate in the corresponding territorial area;

  2. The candidate is jointly responsible for the compliance with the expenditure reports referred to in the previous section, and

  3. The political parties will present income and expenditure reports for each thirty day period from the start of the campaign stage, and these should be delivered to the Technical Unit within the three days following the conclusion of each period.