§ Section 5Restrictions on Pre-election Campaign Expenditures

(1) Restrictions on the amount of pre-election campaign
expenditures (pre-election expenditures) of a political party and
alliance of political parties shall be regulated by the Law on
Financing of Political Organisations (Parties).
(2) For a pre-election campaign, an unrelated person may use
funds not exceeding 15 minimum monthly wages. Within the meaning
of this Law, a minimum monthly wage shall be the amount of the
minimum monthly wage which was determined on 1 January of the
relevant calendar year.
(3) The amount of the funds referred to in Paragraph two of
this Section that an unrelated person may use for a pre-election
campaign shall consist of the expenditures of the relevant person
during the pre-election campaign period regardless of the date on
which the document confirming a transaction (bill, contract or
another document) was issued, or payment was received or made
for:
1) the placement of an advertisement:
a) [10 June 2021];
b) [10 June 2021];
c) in the television programmes and broadcasts of the
commercial electronic mass medium;
d) in the radio programmes and broadcasts of the commercial
electronic mass medium;
e) in newspapers, magazines, bulletins and other periodicals
registered in accordance with the procedures laid down in the
law, produced by print technology and widely circulated
throughout the whole 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 an unrelated
person;
h) in premises and public places (in squares, streets, on
bridges and in other similar places) regardless of the
ownership;
2) use of postal services (also electronic mail) in order to
send the pre-election campaign materials with the help of it;
3) financing, sponsoring charity events, disbursing benefits
and making gifts (donations) if they are of the nature of a
pre-election campaign.
(4) All funds which are used for a pre-election campaign
conducted by unrelated persons and exceed one minimum monthly
wage shall be transferred into the bank account of the recipient
directly and without mediators. If the amount of the funds used
for a pre-election campaign conducted by unrelated persons has
reached a minimum monthly wage, subsequent financial resources
regardless of their amount shall be directly and without
mediators transferred into the bank account of the recipient.
(5) If the total payment made by an unrelated person for
pre-election campaign to the same electronic mass medium,
publication, the person who agreed with the campaigner on the
placement of materials of pre-election campaign on the Internet,
as well as the person or authority which allocates premises and
public places for charge for conducting the pre-election campaign
(regardless of ownership), or provides postal (including
electronic mail) services to send the pre-election campaign
materials, in case of entering into a contract would exceed the
amount of the expenditures set out in Paragraph two of this
Section, the relevant electronic mass medium, publication,
person, who agrees with the campaigner on the placement of
materials of pre-election campaign on the Internet, as well as
the person or authority which allocates premises and public
places for a fee for conducting the pre-election campaign
(regardless of ownership) or provides postal (including
electronic mail) services to send the materials of pre-election
campaign shall refuse the entry into a contract for the unrelated
person.
[10 June 2021]