19. If there is a limit on the amount a donor can contribute to a candidate, what is the limit?
Tajikistan
Answer
natural person - to the electoral fund of candidates should not exceed 50 (fifty), and to the election fund of political parties 100 (one hundred) calculation indicators. legal person - to the election fund of candidates for deputies should not exceed 100 (one hundred) calculation indicators, and 500 (five hundred) to the electoral fund of political parties.
Source
Article 9:
Donations from individuals to the electoral fund of candidates should not exceed 50 (fifty), and to the election fund of political parties 100 (one hundred) calculation indicators.
Donations from legal entities to the election fund of candidates for deputies should not exceed 100 (one hundred) calculation indicators , and 500 (five hundred) to the electoral fund of political parties.
(Constitutional Law of the Republic of Tajikistan, On Elections to the Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tajikistan, 1999, available at http://base.mmk.tj/view_sanadhoview.php?showdetail=&sanadID=6 accessed January 2018).
Comment
As of 2017 the calculation indicator is equivalent to 50 Tajikistani Somoni (TJS).
