18. Is there a limit on the amount a donor can contribute to a candidate?

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

Answer
Yes, for both natural and legal persons
Source

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.

Article 54 Election fund of the candidate for presidency

2. Election funds may be established by means of the following funds and campaigning and information materials of agitation and informational nature, which are taken into account by the Central Election Commission:

1) candidate’s own funds, which may not exceed the estimated index more than 15000 times;

2) funds allocated to the candidate of a political party, which may not exceed the estimated index more than 50000 times;

3) voluntary donations from individuals, whose amount may not exceed the estimated index more than 50 times;

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

3. The maximum amount of candidate's expenditures from the election fund may not exceed the estimated index more than 500000 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).    

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