27. Are there provisions requiring donations to go through the banking system?

Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on political parties, 2023, https://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/?pdf=CDL-REF(2023)012-e

Election Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 2003 (as amended 2019). https://www.msk.gov.az/uploads/qanunvericilik/Election-code_2020.pdf    

The LPP requires political parties to accept funds only in the national currency and by transferring them to a bank account without cash (Art. 23.7). Bank operations and any other operations cannot be carried out by a political party on donation without providing information about it (Art. 24.6).

ECode obliges the candidates to open a special election account to form their election fund within 5 days of submitting a notification of nomination in a single-mandate constituency to the Constituency Election Commission (Art. 157.1). Political parties and blocs of political parties that intend to open a single election fund for their candidates shall open a special election account to form the single election fund within 5 days of submitting the list of candidates nominated in more than 60 single-mandate constituencies to the Central Election Commission (Art. 157.2.).