§ Section 34(untitled)

(1) A natural person, legal person or
registered association of such persons may use for expenses of
campaigns before a national referendum, campaigns for a
legislative initiative and campaigns for the initiative to recall
the Saeima a sum not exceeding the monthly average gross
work remuneration of the year before last published by the
Central Statistical Bureau, which is rounded up in full euros,
applying the coefficient of 0.00007, and calculated per each
voter in the previous Saeima elections. This restriction
shall not apply to the case referred to in Paragraph two of this
Section.
(2) The initiative group may use for expenses of campaigns
before a national referendum, campaigns for a legislative
initiative and campaigns for the initiative to recall the
Saeima a sum not exceeding the monthly average gross work
remuneration of the year before last published by the Central
Statistical Bureau, which is rounded up in full euros, applying
the coefficient of 0.00007, and calculated per each voter in the
previous Saeima elections.
(3) Expenses of campaigns before a national referendum,
campaigns for a legislative initiative and campaigns for the
initiative to recall the Saeima conducted by a registered
association of political parties shall also be considered as the
expenses used for such purpose by the political parties forming
the association.
(4) The funds spent by an individual member of the
Saeima or a candidate to the Saeima, a member of a
political party or a member of the initiative group for an
individual campaign before a national referendum, individual
campaign for a legislative initiative and individual campaign for
the initiative to recall the Saeima shall be included in
the campaign expenses of the respective initiative group.
(5) The funds referred to in Paragraph one of this Section
which a person may use for campaigns shall be comprised of the
expenses of the respective person during the campaign period
before a national referendum, the campaign period for a
legislative initiative and the campaign period for the initiative
to recall the Saeima, irrespective of the date of issue of
the document confirming transaction (invoice, contract or another
document), receipt or making of a payment for:
1) the placement of an advertisement:
a) in the programmes and broadcasts of the public electronic
mass medium - television;
b) in the programmes and broadcasts of the public electronic
mass medium - radio;
c) in the programmes and broadcasts of the commercial
electronic mass medium - television;
d) in the programmes and broadcasts of the commercial
electronic mass medium - radio;
e) in newspapers, magazines, bulletins and other periodicals
registered in accordance with the procedures laid down in law
which are produced by print technology and widely circulated
throughout the territory of the country;
f) in newspapers, magazines, bulletins and other periodicals
registered in accordance with the procedures laid down in law
which are produced by print technology and the majority editions
of which are circulated within the territory of one local
government;
g) on the Internet, except for the website of a political
party, association of political parties and the initiative
group;
h) in premises and public places (public courtyards, squares,
streets, on bridges and in other similar places) regardless of
the ownership of the property;
2) the use of postal (also electronic mail) services to send
the campaign materials before a national referendum, campaign
materials for a legislative initiative or campaign materials for
the initiative to recall the Saeima;
3) the funding and sponsoring of charity events by disbursing
bonuses and making gifts (donations).
(6) The Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau shall
annually post on its website an informative notice, indicating
the sum referred to in Paragraphs one and two of this Section
which may be allocated per one voter in a campaign before a
national referendum, campaign for a legislative initiative or
campaign for the initiative to recall the Saeima.
[12 September 2013; 3 December 2020]