What institution(s) has the power to impose non-criminal sanctions for campaign finance infractions?
Egypt
Law No. 38/1972 OnThe People’s Assembly
(amended by decree law 123/2011).
Article 11
Election campaigning shall comply with the principles of the Constitutionand the law, as well as the following rules:
1. Respecting the private life of any candidate.
[…]
6. Prohibitingfunds received from abroad, from a foreign person, from a foreign orinternational entity, or from its representative in Egypt from being spent onelection campaigning, or giving such funds to voters to refrain from expressingtheir views or expressing them in a certain manner.
The foregoing rules shall exist in addition to the rulesconcerning the means and methods regulating the election campaign, includingthe maximum campaign expenditure limit that may not be exceeded and for which adecision shall be issued by the High Elections Commission and published in twomass circulation dailies.
[…]
A penalty ofconfinement to jail for a period of not less than one year and a fine of notless than fifty thousand pounds and not exceeding one hundred thousand poundsin addition to confiscating the funds received shall be inflicted on whoevercontravenes the provisions of item (6) of the rules referred to in the presentarticle.
High Election Commission decision no 16 of 2013 regulatingelection campaign.
Arabic version can be found here: https://www.elections.eg/images/pdfs/decrees/qarar_lagna-16_2013.pdf
Unofficial translation:
Article 6:
The supreme administrative court has authority to review, in fastmanner, all requests regarding de-listing candidates for violating campaignregulations. All court decisions have executive force and can be appealed infront of the same court.
