41. Are there limits on the amount a candidate can spend?

OSCE/ODIHR Final Report on Parliamentary elections 2015

https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/poland/217961?download=true

OSCE/ODIHR Needs Assesment Mission Report on Parliamentary and Presidential elections 2015

https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/poland/150121?download=true

Campaign expenditure is limited to PLN 0.82 per voter for the Sejm elections and PLN 0.18 per voter for the Senat elections. The spending limit is electoral committee-specific and its calculation depends on the number of candidates the committee registers. For the presidential election, campaign expenditure of the electoral committees is limited to PLN 0.60 per voter (a total of some PLN 18.3 million) equivalent to approximately EUR 4.5 million.

Expenses for the presidential campaign are not compensated by the state subsidy.Committees that register candidates for the Sejm and the Senat in all constituencies have a nationwide maximum spending limit of PLN 30,629,150.28 .

According to the law, up to 80 per cent of this amount can be spent for advertising. During the campaign, each electoral committee must appoint a financial representative responsible for the committee’s financial management