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42. If there are limits on the amount a candidate can spend, what is the limit?

Lithuania

Lithuania

Answer
In case the constituency covers the entire territory of the country: all voters on electoral roll of the country multiplied by 0,0005 AMEs (AMEs - average monthly earnings valid in the fourth quarter of the previous calendar year). | In case the constituency covers only part of the country: voters on the electoral roll of that constituency multiplied by 0,001 AMEs, but not less that 10 AMEs.
Source

Articles 14.2&14.3, Law on funding of, and control over funding of, political campaigns, as last amended on 28 November 2019 No XIII-2566.

Comment

Article 14.2: In those cases where the constituency covers the entire territory of the Republic of Lithuania, the maximum amount of political campaign expenditure of one independent political campaign participant shall be calculated in the following manner: the number of voters entered on the electoral roll of the Republic of Lithuania shall be multiplied by 0,0005 AMEs and the received product shall be rounded up within the accuracy of the first two significant digits.

Article 14.3: In those cases where the constituency covers a part of the territory of the Republic of Lithuania, the maximum amount of political campaign expenditure of one independent political campaign participant shall be calculated in the following manner: the number of voters of one constituency shall be multiplied by 0,001 AMEs and the received product shall be rounded up within the accuracy of the first two significant digits. If the received product is less than 10 AMEs, the fixed maximum amount of political campaign expenditure shall be 10 AMEs. In elections to municipal councils a political party, which has nominated a list (lists) of candidates, may additionally spend for this political campaign not more than 10 per cent of the maximum amount of political campaign expenditure of the list (lists) of candidates nominated by this party.

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