ECIElection Campaign-Finance Index

§ 10 of the Funding Law sets the contribution-limit framework — one natural or legal person may donate up to 20 average monthly earnings per political party per calendar year; § 12 enumerates eligible donors.

“may, during a calendar year, donate a donation for each political party which does not exceed the amount of 20 average monthly earnings”

Lithuania regulates independent political-campaign participants under the Funding Law (§ 3 definitions, § 5-6 registration, § 11 representation) and the Pre-election Campaign provisions of the Seimas Election Law; the surfaced section is the unrelated EP electoral-rolls article.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

§ 21 codifies the filing schedule — the political-campaign treasurer manages campaign accounting on a statutory timetable, with statements submitted to the Central Electoral Commission and published per § 25.

“Independent political campaign participants shall handle the political campaign accounting in accordance with the procedure laid down by this Law”

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

§ 25 of the Funding Law (Openness of funding) requires the Central Electoral Commission to post financial statements of political campaigns and the auditor's report on findings on its website not later than 100 days after the final results.

“shall post financial statements on political campaigns together with”

§ 28 of the Funding Law enumerates gross violations — financing from ineligible donors, use of unallowable funds — punishable by the CEC's administrative sanctions (cancellation of state funding) and, under the parallel Pre-election Campaign provisions, criminal misdemeanour penalties.

“The following shall be considered to be gross violations of this Law”

§ 26 names the Central Electoral Commission as the campaign-finance monitor — continuous monitoring of party funding plus campaign-period monitoring of political advertising. The CEC's statutory independence is established in § 5 of the CEC Law.

“Monitoring of funding of political parties and political campaigns, and of political advertising shall be carried out by the Central Electoral Commission”

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

§ 12 of the Funding Law enumerates eligible donors (Lithuanian citizens, EU permanent residents, specified legal persons) and thereby excludes foreign nationals from making donations to political parties and campaigns; the surfaced § 2 covers voter qualifications rather than donor eligibility.

Lithuania closes both direct and indirect foreign donations — § 12 enumerates the eligible donors and § 28 treats financing 'with the donations of the persons who under this Law do not have the right to make donations' as a gross violation, also covering decisions to use such funds through intermediaries.

“donations of the persons who under this Law do not have the right to make donations”

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

Lithuania requires the political-campaign treasurer to manage detailed accounting (§ 21 Funding Law) under the Civil Code's trust-agreement framework, with the records and statements submitted to the CEC; the surfaced § 3 lists CEC tasks generally.

§ 24 of the Funding Law mandates an independent audit — a political party above an income threshold (200 AME) and political-campaign participants must conclude an audit contract, with the auditor's findings submitted to the CEC; the surfaced § 3 lists CEC tasks generally.