Transitory provision for budget financing

(amended by Law no. 31/2015, dated 2 April 2015; amended by Law No. 101/2020, dated 23 July 2020)

1. Implementation of Article 88 of this law concerning the election campaign financing in the first general elections following the entry into force of this law shall be based on calculations referring to the countrywide results of the 2015 local elections and the 2017 general elections.

2. For each party, the calculation shall include the highest number of votes that the party obtained in either of these elections, provided that it is not less then 1 per cent of the valid votes in the relevant elections. The calculation shall also include the results of electoral subjects which did not run in those elections, but which have run in the following elections and meet the condition set out in Article 88 of this law concerning the threshold of 1 per cent of the valid votes won by them.

3. The total budget fund earmarked for distribution shall be divided to the total votes won as calculated under point 2 of this Article. The outcoming result shall represent the value in ALL per vote.

4. In the first elections following the entry into force of this law, the State budget funds to finance the political parties running in the elections shall be twice the funds allocated in the 2017 general elections.