Funding of representatives of electoral subjects

1. To provide their representation at DECs and PECs on Election Day, a qualified electoral subject (a qualified party running independently, as well as an electoral bloc that includes a qualified party) shall receive GEL 100 for each electoral precinct and GEL 150 for each electoral district, and the electoral bloc uniting two or more qualified parties shall receive GEL 150 for each electoral precinct and GEL 200 for each electoral district. To provide their representation at DECs and PECs on Election Day, an electoral bloc, which does not include any qualified party, but the parties united in that bloc received in total 3% or more of the votes cast in at least one of the last general parliamentary or local self-government elections held under the proportional electoral system, shall receive GEL 100 for each electoral precinct and GEL 150 for each electoral district. The amount allocated for one electoral precinct shall be paid to the representative(s) appointed only for that precinct.

2. The CEC shall transfer the amount allocated for the electoral subject referred to in the first paragraph of this article into the account of the respective electoral subject not later than the third day before Election Day. The electoral subject may apportion the amount to the relevant representatives in district and precinct election commissions so as to fund the activity of not more than two representatives per commission; at the same time, the same representative shall not be paid the amount allocated for more than three electoral precincts.

3. If a political party receiving funds does not have a representative in an electoral district and/or electoral precinct and/or if the deposited funds are not fully appropriated, the party shall return the respective amount of funds to the State Budget of Georgia within 15 days after the election results are summarised.

4. The salary earned under this article by an electoral subject’s representative who is entered into the Unified Database of Socially Vulnerable Families shall not be included in the total income of his/her family and shall not serve as the basis for discontinuation of his/her state financing. (Applies to legal relations arising from 1 September 2013)a