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Paragraph 27
 

Pursuant to Article 12 para 3 of the draft amendments, Article 24 of the Law would specify that donations obtained from a donor who was not permitted to donate to a political party shall be automatically transferred to the State Budget within two weeks whereas donations exceeding the permissible limit would first be attempted to return to the donor (either the exceeding amount or the contribution as a whole) and only be transferred to the State Budget if a return to the donor is not possible. A wrongful donation may not always be the result of a decision in bad faith. As private donations are a form of political participation, it might be advisable to try to return the donation to the donor in both cases before incorporating it in the State Budget save for circumstances in which donors have been proven to have intentionally tried to circumvent financial regulations for political parties.