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Article 28
 

(1) The expenses for the electoral campaign shall observe the following conditions:


a) to be obtained only from contributions of the candidates or of the political formations;


b) to be committed only after obtaining the visa of the competent financial mandatary;


c) to not exceed the maximum limits laid down by this law;


d) to be made by electoral competitors only for promoting their own candidates and electoral programmes.


(2) Collecting electoral contributions and paying electoral expenses shall be done only through bank accounts previously notified to the Permanent Electoral Authority.


(3) In the case of the parliamentary elections, the political parties and the independent candidates shall use a distinctive bank account for the financing of the electoral campaign for each electoral constituency in which they take part in the elections. The organisations of Romanian citizens belonging to national minorities which propose candidates solely at a national level shall open a bank account at national level.


(4) In the case of local elections, political parties and independent candidates shall use a distinctive bank account for the financing of the electoral campaign for each county and for the Bucharest municipality, where they take part in the elections.


(5) In the case of the elections for the European Parliament and of the elections for the President of Romania, political parties and independent candidates shall use only one bank account for the financing of the electoral campaign.


(6) The contributions for the electoral campaign shall be deposited or transferred into the accounts provided for in paragraphs (2) - (4) solely by the candidates, by the political parties or by their financial mandataries.


(7) Derogating from the provisions of paragraph (5), in the case of the elections for the President of Romania, the candidate nominated by a political formation may receive electoral contributions and may incur electoral expenses only by means of a distinctive bank account than the one notified by the political formation, with the adequate application of the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (6). The electoral expenses made by the candidate and the political formation that nominated him cannot exceed the limit provided for in paragraph (12) point p).


(8) Derogating from the provisions of Article 25 paragraphs (1) and (2), the electoral campaign for the elections for the European Parliament and for the President of Romania may be funded through the incomes provided for in Article 3 paragraph (1) point d), and in this case, derogating from the provisions of paragraph (5), a distinctive bank account shall be used.


(9) No later than 3 working days after the political formation or the candidate have committed the specific expense, as the case may be, the competent financial mandatary shall notify to the Permanent Electoral
Authority the value and the destination of the expense according to Article 38 paragraph (2).


(10) The contributions for the electoral campaign shall be deemed to be special purpose accounts and shall not be subject to enforcement.


(11) The contributions of the candidates for their own electoral campaign or for the one of the political formation that nominated them may only come from donations received by the candidates from natural persons, from personal income or from borrowings taken from natural persons or from credit institutions.


(12) The maximum limits of the candidates’ contributions for the electoral campaign shall be the following:


a) 60 basic national gross minimum wages for each candidate for the office of deputy or senator;


b) one basic national gross minimum wage for each list of candidates for the local council of the commune;


c) 3 basic national gross minimum wages for each list of candidates for the local council of the town;


d) 5 basic national gross minimum wages for each list of candidates for the local council of the municipality;


e) 30 basic national gross minimum wages for each list of candidates for the local council of the county capital municipality;


f) 50 basic national gross minimum wages for each list of candidates for the district council of Bucharest municipality;


g) 500 basic national gross minimum wages for each list of candidates for the General Council of Bucharest Municipality;


h) 100 basic national gross minimum wages for each list of candidates for the county council;


i) 5 basic national gross minimum wages for each candidate for the office of commune mayor;


j) 7 basic national gross minimum wages for each candidate for the office of town mayor;


k) 10 basic national gross minimum wages for each candidate for the office of municipality mayor;


l) 50 basic national gross minimum wages for each candidate for the office of mayor of the county capital municipality;


m) 100 basic national gross minimum wages for each candidate for the office of mayor of a Bucharest municipality district;


n) 200 basic national gross minimum wages for each candidate for the office of president of the county council and of mayor of the Bucharest municipality;


o) 750 basic national gross minimum wages for each candidate for the office of member in the European Parliament;


p) 20,000 basic national gross minimum wages for each candidate for the office of President of Romania.


(13) No later than 3 working days from the date on which a sum was deposited or transferred into the bank account dedicated to the electoral campaign, the candidate or the political party, as the case may be, shall be required to hand over to the competent financial mandatary a statement indicating the source of the contribution.


(14) The competent financial mandatary shall declare to the Permanent Electoral Authority the contribution for the electoral campaign within 3 working days after the transfer into the bank account notified to the Permanent Electoral Authority.


(15) The contributions for the electoral campaign may only be deposited into the accounts notified to the Permanent Electoral Authority by the closing date of the electoral campaign.


(16) In case a minor offence shall be done as provided by this law, by infringement of the provisions of this article, the sums for the electoral expenses done by infringement of paragraph (1) shall be confiscated and shall be entered as income to the state budget.