14. Is there a limit on the amount a donor can contribute to a political party during a non-election specific period?

Article 62. Election fund of political parties submitting the list of nominated candidates

2. Election funds may be established based on the following funds and campaigning and information materials, which are taken into account by the Central Election Commission:

1) the own funds of the candidate included into the candidates’ list; the fund may not exceed the estimated index more than 5000 times;

2) the own funds of a political party, which may not exceed the estimated index more than 200000 times;

3) donations from individuals; the amount may not exceed the estimated index more than 1000 times;

4) contributions of legal entities; the amount may not exceed the estimated index more than 5000 times.

The maximum expenditure amount of a political party, which nominated a candidates’ list using its election fund, may not exceed the estimated index more than 1000000 times.

(Constitutional Law of the Kyrgyz Republic On elections of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic and deputies of Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic, 2011, available at http://www.legislationline.org/download/action/download/id/4016/file/Kyrgyz_Const_Law_Presidential_and_parliam_Elections_2011_en.pdf accessed February 2018).    

Article 17. Sources of financial resources of political parties

Financial means of political parties are formed through membership fees, voluntary donations, credits, revenues from property, from events, dissemination of printed materials and publications, as well as other incomes, not prohibited by law. 

(Law of the Kyrgyz Republic on Political Parties, 1999, available at http://cbd.minjust.gov.kg/act/view/ky-kg/215 accessed February 2018).