ECIElection Campaign-Finance Index

§ 2 of the Law on Financing of Political Organisations (Parties) sets the donation framework in statute — parties may receive income only from enumerated sources, and a natural person's total gifts, membership and joining fees may not exceed 30 per cent of their previous-year income.

“may not exceed 30 per cent of the income earned by such persons in the previous calendar year.”

Latvia codifies third-party (independent) campaigning — § 5 of the Pre-election Campaign Law defines the 'unrelated person' who may campaign separately from candidates and parties, capped at 15 minimum monthly wages, with notification and accounting duties to the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau.

“an unrelated person may use funds not exceeding 15 minimum monthly wages.”

§ 7 of the Law on Financing of Political Organisations expressly prohibits anonymous gifts (donations) and codifies the disposition — an anonymous donation is transferred to the State budget within five days of receipt.

“Financing of the political organisations (parties) in the form of anonymous gifts (donations) is prohibited.”

§ 9 of the Law on Financing of Political Organisations requires the financial and economic activities of parties to be transparent and publicly available — a statutory disclosure regime applying to all party finance rather than above a threshold.

“The financial and economic activities of political organisations (parties) shall be transparent and publicly available.”

Latvia enumerates a multi-part filing schedule — the declaration of revenues and expenditures of elections within 30 days of election day (§ 8²), the annual statement, and pre-election-period declarations — all submitted to the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau via the Electronic Data Input System (§ 15).

“submit to the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau the declaration of revenues and expenditures of elections and the annual statement”

§ 7 requires each donation to be recorded with the donor's given name, surname, personal identification number and place of residence — a donation lacking these is 'anonymous' and prohibited. Donors are fully identified by name and national ID; employer/occupation fields are not used.

“the given name, surname, personal identification number and place of residence for the giver (donor)”

§ 9(3) requires party-finance declarations and statements to be published in the official gazette Latvijas Vēstnesis and on the Internet within 10 days of submission — codified public online access.

“shall be published in the official gazette Latvijas Vēstnesis and on the Internet”

§ 35 of the Pre-election Campaign Law and § 39 of the Referendum Law (and §§ 16–17 of the Party Financing Law) codify a graduated administrative penalty schedule for campaign-finance violations — fines specified in units of fine; criminal election offences sit in the separate Criminal Law.

“a warning or a fine from ten to one hundred units of fine shall be imposed on a natural person”

Latvia's campaign-finance enforcer is the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau, whose independence is established in its own Law outside this corpus; the surfaced sections establish the independence of the election commissions (§ 2 of the Election Commissions Law) and the multi-branch-elected Central Election Commission.

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

§ 35 of the Referendum Law prohibits campaign funding obtained directly or indirectly from legal persons registered abroad and foreign citizens; the Law on Financing of Political Organisations limits party income to enumerated domestic sources, excluding foreign donors.

“are directly or indirectly obtained from legal persons registered abroad and foreign citizens”

§ 35(5) closes indirect channels — campaign funding may not be obtained directly or indirectly from foreign legal persons and citizens, nor through the intermediation of a third party; the third-party-conduit ban is defined in detail.

“obtained with the intermediation of a third party”

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

§ 27 of the Pre-election Campaign Law requires media and service providers to keep records of pre-election campaign expenditures, and the Party Financing Law requires parties to maintain accounting documents; record-keeping is statutorily required, though a specific retention period is not enumerated.

“shall keep records of the pre-election campaign (pre-election expenditures)”

§ 11 of the Law on Financing of Political Organisations mandates an audit — a party whose fund turnover exceeds 10 minimum monthly wages must have its financial and economic activities audited by a sworn auditor, whose opinion is attached to the annual statement submitted to the CPCB.

“financial and economic activities of such political organisation (party) for the relevant year shall be audited by a sworn auditor”