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Article 50
 

Financing of Preparation and Conduct of Elections

1. The expenditures of election commissions for the preparation and conduct of elections shall be covered from the funds of the republican budget and special funds of election commissions.

Funding of the electoral process by foreign states, foreign government bodies, establishments and companies, other foreign legal entities, their subsidiaries and representatives, foreign citizens and international agencies, legal entities registered in the Kyrgyz Republic, the shareholders of which are foreign citizens and juridical persons, shall not be allowed in any form except for financial support to election law improvement programs, informational, educational, scientific research programs, technical preparation of elections, and development of legal culture of the electorate.

2. Appropriations for preparation and conduct of regular elections shall be allocated as a separate item in the state budget for the next fiscal year. The funds for conduct of elections shall be transferred to election commissions not later than ten calendar days after the day of appointment of elections and shall be distributed by them among subordinate election commissions.

3. In case if the elections are financed not from the state budget as well as in the case of untimely transfer of funds to the election commission that was charged with direction of the activities of subordinate election commissions in preparation and conduct of the respective elections, these expenses shall be covered by bank loans that are provided to the election commission on a competitive basis. At that, the allowable amount of funds may not exceed the amount given in the statement of the corresponding level election commission on expenditure of funds for preparation and conduct of similar previous elections taking into account a change in the amount of minimum salary established by law.

4. Depending on the level of elections, the received loans, including the interest, shall be refunded from the state budget by the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, for which the loans are liabilities to be paid back within the period not exceeding two years. When approving the state budget for the year following the year when the mentioned elections were held the budget should envisage the repayment of these loans as a separate item. The repayment of the loans shall be guaranteed by the budget by virtue of this Code without adopting a decision on providing a guarantee.

5. The following expenditures of election commissions shall be financed on account of the state budget:

1) additional payment for work (remuneration) of the election commissions members, compensations to election commission members who are released from their main work for the period of preparation and conduct of elections, payment to accountants at the level of the salaries of full-time members of election commissions, as well as payment to citizens who are attracted for work in the commissions on the basis of civil law agreements (contracts);

2) production of printed materials and publishing activity;

3) procurement, delivery and installation of equipment (including manufacturing equipment), other material assets required for support of elections and exercise of the election commissions authority;

4) provision of communications with election commissions (telephone, facsimile, postal, E-mail, mobile), transport expenditures including those for conduct of voting in remote and difficult of access areas;

5) delivery, safekeeping of election-related documentation, its preparation for transfer to archives or destruction;

6) development of the electoral system including introduction of new election technologies, means of automation, development of legal culture of the electorate and organizers of elections, implementation of targeted programs;

7) publication of lists of polling stations in local press with indication of their location and composition of the precinct election commissions;

8) official journeys and reimbursement of travel costs to election commission members when they move around to implement the events for organization and conduct of elections;

9) accreditation of foreign (international) observers;

10) provision of free airtime and free publication space to candidates;

11) publication of election commissions announcements and reports in mass media;

12) per diem payments on the day preceding the election day as well as for the election day to precinct election commission members who are not released from their main work for the election period, in the amount established by laws of the Kyrgyz Republic;

13) meals during the election day for members of election commissions and invited support personnel, in the amount of a daily allowance per one person;

14) organization of registration (accounting) of citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic who have an active electoral right;

15) other purposes in connection with conduct of elections as well as provision for the authority and activities of the election commissions.

The election commissions shall spend the funds for preparation and conduct of elections within the limits of appropriations in accordance with the approved budget. A superior election commission may pay the subordinate election commissions expenses in a centralized way. At the elections, the precinct election commissions, which have no accounts of their own, receive funds in cash from the territorial (rayon, city) election commissions.

Government and self-government bodies, state institutions as well as their officials should provide assistance to election commissions in the implementation of their responsibilities, specifically, provide them free of charge with necessary equipment and premises with telephones, including rooms for safekeeping election-related documentation until its transfer to archives or destruction upon the expiration of the period of their keeping established by law; free guarding of the said premises and documentation and provide without pay means of transportation, communication, technical equipment.

6. The election commission shall use the incoming assets on its special fund for preparation and conduct of elections, improvement of the electoral system, to provide for the authorities and activities of the election commissions. The funds remaining after the return of the election deposits to candidates shall not be subject to transfer to the state budget but shall be left with the special fund of the election commission.

7. Not later than 10 gays after the election, the precinct election commission shall submit to the superior district (rayon, city) election commissions its statement on received and spent funds from the state budget that were allocated to this commission for preparation and conduct of elections. Not later than 20 days after the election, the district (rayon, city) election commissions shall submit to the oblast, Bishkek city election commissions their financial statements on received and spent funds from the state budget that were allocated to this commission. Not later than 30 days after the election, the oblast, Bishkek, Osh city election commissions, district election commissions for elections of deputies to the Jogorku Kenesh shall submit to the Central Election Commission their financial statements on received and spent funds from the state budget that were allocated to these commissions.

The financial statements of the Central Election Commission, subordinate election commissions on spending of the funds form the state budget and special funds for the elections shall be submitted to the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, and the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic, respectively.

8. The chairpersons of election commissions shall command the funds and bear responsibility for the conformity of financial documents with decisions of the election commissions on financial issues.

(In the edition of the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic issued on October 14th 2001 year No.87, January 24th 2004 year No.7)