13. Is there a ban on donations from any other source?

Tunisia

Tunisia

Answer
Legal entities
Source

Organic Law No. 16 of 2014 of May 26, 2014, on Elections and Referenda as revised and completed by Organic Law No. 7 of 2017 dated February 14, 2017, and The Basic Law No. 76 of 2019 dated August 30, 2019,  Article 77:

Private funding means all cash or in-kind funding whose source is derived from outside the candidate list, candidate or party.

The campaign of a candidate list, candidate or party can only be funded by natural persons, with a maximum of twenty times the mandatory minimum wage per person for non-farming sectors in legislative elections, and thirty times in presidential elections and referendums, for each candidate list, candidate or party.

Comment

Decree No. 87 of 2011 dated September 24, 2011, on the organization of political parties., Art.  19

Political parties are prohibited from accepting: 

- direct or indirect financing, in cash or in kind, from a foreign party.  

- direct or indirect funding from an unknown source.  

- ِAid, donations, and gifts from public or private legal persons, with the exception of funding provided from the state budget.  

- donations, gifts, and bequests of natural persons and which exceeds sixty thousand (60,000) dinars per donor per year.

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