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ARTICLE 25
 

General Elections Fund 


The TSE shall have a fund known as General Elections Fund to procure the goods and services that it deems necessary for the organization of elections and consultative processes whose operation shall be regulated by means of regulations and must be subject to the control mechanisms and liabilities stipulated by law. To this end, the National Budget Office shall include the resources determined by the Tribunal in the appropriate budgetary head. The resources of this Fund shall be deposited in the treasury account of the TSE and the National Treasury shall be responsible for transferring resources with the immediacy required by the Tribunal, in accordance with the procedures characteristic of the management of resources in the treasury. Once the electoral or consultative processes have finished, the Tribunal shall liquidate this Fund within a period of four months and shall deposit any surplus in the General Fund of the State Treasury.