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Article 25
 

Election Commission Operation Financial Support


1. The Central Election Commission budget shall be a separate line in the Republican Budget for the ensuing financial year.
2. The allocations for elections and referenda preparation and conduct shall be included in the Republican Budget for the ensuing fiscal year as a separate line.
3. Election commissions’ expenditures for preparation and conduct of elections, referenda shall be paid with the Republican Budget funds. The funds for conducting elections, referenda shall be transferred by the Central Treasury of the Ministry of Finance to the account of the Central Election Commission no later than ten calendar days from the approved date of elections, referenda and distributed among the lower ranking election commissions.
4. It is prohibited to finance elections, referenda by foreign states, foreign state authorities, institutions and enterprises, other foreign legal entities, and their branches and representative offices, foreign citizens, international organizations registered in the Kyrgyz Republic, legal entities with foreign legal entities’ and citizens’ interest, except for financing programs focused on improving the electoral legislation, research programs, information, educational programs targeted at increasing the legal awareness of the electorate, referendum participants, as well as technical support of elections, referenda.
5. Financial support to activities of state programs related to the election system promotion, including implementation of new election technologies, automation equipment, legal training of the voters, referendum participants and administrative staff of the Central Election Commission, members of election commissions, the reserve shall be appropriated from the Republican Budget, the Central Election Commission special fund and other finance sources unless prohibited by the law.
6. The following election commission’s expenditures shall be paid out of the Republican Budget:


1) remuneration and rewards to election commission members, the Central Election Commission administrative staff members, as well as payments to citizens involved in the work of election commissions based on employment contracts;
2) production of printed materials and publishing activities (the Central Election Commission bulletin);
3) purchase, delivery and installation of equipment (including technological equipment), other material values required for supporting elections, referenda and election commissions authorities;
4) establishment of communication with election commissions (telephone, fax, mail, e-mail) transportation costs related to preparing and conducting elections, referenda;
5) delivery, storage of election documents, preparation of such documents for a transfer to the archive office or for destruction;
6) publication of the lists of polling stations, electoral districts, specifying their borders, addresses, members of territorial and precinct election commissions;
7) publication of a list of voters, referendum participants and notifications of their inclusion in the integrated voter registration system;
8) creation, development, and maintenance of an integrated voter, referendum participant registration system;
9) business trips and reimbursement of travel expenses of election commission members for the purpose of carrying out activities aimed at organizing and conducting elections, referenda;
10) provision of free air time, printing space to candidates, political parties having nominated lists of candidates;
11) publication of announcements by election commissions in mass media;
12) providing continuous and systematic training to the Central Election Commission administrative staff, members of election commissions and the reserve;
13) payment of per diem allowances to members of election commissions at the day preceding elections (referenda) day, and also on the elections (referenda) day in the amount established by the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic;
14) organization of meals to members of election commissions and attracted citizens at the day preceding elections (referenda) day, and also on the elections (referenda) day in the amount of a per diem per man;
15) other expenditures related to conducting elections, referenda as well as supporting the authorities and operation of election commissions.


7. Election commissions shall spend their funds for preparation and conduct of elections, referenda to the extent of the allocated funds in accordance with the approved estimated expenditures. A higher ranking election commission may cover the expenses of lower ranking election commissions in a centralized mode.
8. A precinct election commission shall submit to a territorial election commission a financial report on the received and spent Republican Budget funds no later than seven calendar days from the ballot day.
9. A territorial election commission shall submit to the Central Election Commission a report on the received and spent funds of the Republican Budget no later than twenty calendar days from the ballot day.
10. The Financial Report of the Central Election Commission, of lower ranking election commissions on the Republican Budget funds spent to prepare and conduct elections, referenda shall be published in official publishing sources, bulletin and placed on the official web-site of the Central Election Commission no later than three months from the day of publishing the elections, referenda results.
11. Election commissions’ Chairmen shall administer funds and bear responsibility for financial documents being in conformity with the election commissions’ decisions as regard the financial issues and for submission of financial reports in due time and order as specified by the present Law.