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Order Of 10 January 1996 Laying Down The Updated Amounts Of Subsidies For Costs Resulting From Noncompliance With Electoral Activities Corresponding To The General Elections On March 3, 1996.

Original Language Title: Orden de 10 de enero de 1996 por la que se fijan las cantidades actualizadas de las subvenciones de los gastos que se originen por las actividades electorales correspondientes a las Elecciones Generales de 3 de marzo de 1996.

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The Royal Decree 1/1996, of 8 January, of dissolution of the Congress of Deputies and of the Senate and call of elections, establishes in its article 2 the call of elections for its celebration on March 3, 1996.

On the other hand, the Organic Law 5/1985 of 19 June of the General Electoral Regime, as amended by the Organic Laws 1/1987 of 2 April; 8/1991 of 13 March; 6/1992 of 2 November; 13/1994 of 30 March, and 3/1995 of On 23 March, under Title II of the Special Provisions for the Elections of Deputies and Senators, it regulates the amounts of subsidies to electoral expenditure in Article 175, paragraph 4 of which states that ' the amounts mentioned above shall be in the preceding paragraphs refer to constant pesetas. The Ministry of Economy and Finance shall set out the updated amounts within five days of the call. "

The realization of the grants for electoral expenses, when expressed in constant pesetas from 1991 and 1994, according to the Organic Laws 8/1991 and 13/1994, requires the application of the rates of deflation that come determined by the Consumer Price Index applicable in each case.

In its virtue, I have:

Single item.

1. The updating of the amounts fixed to subsidise the expenses incurred by the electoral activities, regulated in Article 175 of the Organic Law 5/1985, of 19 June, in writing given to the same by the Organic Laws 8/1991, of 13 March, and 13/1994, of 30 March, shall be verified by application to the quantities referred to in that Article of the corrective deflationary coefficient of the Consumer Price Index.

2. The quantities referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be as follows:

a) Subsidy of 2,564,000 pesetas for each seat obtained in the Congress of Deputies or in the Senate.

(b) Subsidy of 96 pesetas for each of the votes obtained for each candidacy to the Congress, one of whose members, at least, would have obtained a seat of Deputy.

c) Subsidy of 38 pesetas for each of the votes obtained by each candidate who would have obtained Senator's seat.

3. The limit of the electoral costs shall be that of multiplying by 44 pesetas the number of inhabitants corresponding to the population of the right of the constituencies where each party, federation, coalition or grouping.

4. In addition to the preceding paragraphs, the amount of the grant to the parties, federations, coalitions or groupings, of the electoral expenses incurred by direct and personal sending to the voters of envelopes and ballot papers or of propaganda and election publicity, shall conform to the following rules:

(a) 26 pesetas shall be paid by voter in each of the constituencies in which he has submitted a list to the Congress of Deputies and the Senate, provided that the reference application has obtained the number of deputies or Senators or votes needed to set up a Parliamentary Group in one chamber or another. Obtaining a Parliamentary Group in both Chambers will not entitle the group to receive the subsidy more than once.

(b) The subsidised amount shall not be included within the limit provided for in paragraph 3 of this Article, provided that the actual performance of the activity referred to in paragraph 4 has been justified.

Final disposition.

This Order shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Gazette of the State.

What I communicate to VV. EE.

Madrid, January 10, 1996.

SOLBES MIRA

Excms. Mr Secretary of State for Finance and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs.