35. Are there provisions for any other form of indirect public funding?

SECTION XVI. FINANCING OF ELECTIONS, REFERENDUMS

Article 88. Financing of elections, referenda

1. Expenses for the preparation and conduct of elections, a nationwide referendum are financed from the State Budget of Turkmenistan.

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3. The following expenditures are financed from the state budget of Turkmenistan and the budget of the Gengesh:

1) the production of printed materials and the implementation of publishing activities;

2) acquisition, delivery and installation of equipment, other material assets necessary for the conduct of elections, referendums and ensuring the operation of election commissions;

3) ensuring communication with election commissions (telephone, facsimile, postal, electronic), transportation costs associated with the preparation and conduct of elections, referendum;

4) delivery, storage of election documents, preparation for transfer to the archive or for destruction;

5) publication of lists of electoral districts and polling stations with indication of their boundaries, location, and the composition of precinct election commissions;

6) provision of free airtime, free print space to candidates, initiative groups of the referendum;

7) publication in the mass media of the messages of election commissions;

8) catering on the day of elections, referendum for members of election commissions (in the amount of per diem per person);

9) other expenses related to the preparation and conduct of elections, referendum, as well as ensuring the activities of election commissions.

Law of Turkmenistan on Political Parties, 2012 available at http://asgabat.net/stati/zakonodatelstvo-turkmenistana/zakon-turkmenistana-o-politicheskih-partijah.html  accessed January 2018).