Resources from public financing:

• Public subsidies for electoral expenses, in the terms provided for in Organic Law 5/1985, of the General Electoral Regime and in the legislation regulating the electoral processes of the Legislative Assemblies of the Autonomous Communities and the General Boards of the Basque Historical Territories .
• Annual state subsidies for operating expenses, regulated in this Law.
• The annual subsidies that the Autonomous Communities establish for operating expenses in the corresponding autonomous area, as well as those granted by the Basque Historical Territories and, where appropriate, by the Local Corporations.
• Extraordinary subsidies to carry out propaganda campaigns that may be established in the Organic Law regulating the different modalities of referendum.
• The contributions that, where appropriate, the political parties may receive from the Parliamentary Groups of the Chambers of the Cortes Generales, the Legislative Assemblies of the Autonomous Communities, the General Meetings of the Basque Historical Territories and the groups of representatives in the bodies of Local Administrations.

Resources from private financing:

• The fees and contributions of its members, adherents and sympathizers.
• The products of the party’s own activities as well as those, reflected in the accounting documentation and subject to the control of the Court of Accounts, that have traditionally been carried out at its headquarters and facilitate contact and interaction with citizens; the income from the management of your own assets; the benefits derived from their promotional activities and those that may be obtained from the services they may provide in relation to their specific purposes.
• Donations in money or in kind, received under the terms and conditions provided for in this Law.
• The funds from the loans or credits agreed upon.
• The inheritances or legacies they receive.

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1. Subsidies regulated by Organic Law 5/1985, of June 19, of the General Electoral Regime (hereinafter LOREG), with a common processing procedure:

1. 1. Elections of Deputies and Senators (General Elections).
   2. Municipal elections.
   3. Election of Councils.
   4. Elections to the European Parliament.

These subsidies are aimed at compensating political parties for the increase in expenses caused by holding the aforementioned electoral processes.

To be entitled to this type of subsidies, one of the candidates presented by the political party must be elected and subsequently the accounting of the electoral process in question must be presented to the Court of Accounts within the period established in the LOREG. Through subsidies for electoral expenses, both the results obtained and, where appropriate, the electoral submissions made and justified are subsidized.

2. Subsidies regulated by Organic Law 8/2007, of July 4, on financing of political parties (both with a common processing procedure):

1. Unconditional annual subsidies, aimed at financing the ordinary operating activities of political formations.
2. Subsidies to cover security expenses, aimed at financing security expenses caused by the political and institutional activity of political formations.

To be entitled to these two types of subsidies, you must obtain at least one seat in the Congress of Deputies. It is only the General Elections that have an impact on the birth of the right to these subsidies.

Among the resources from public financing, the Ministry of the Interior, through the General Directorate of Internal Policy, is responsible for the processing and resolution of the files of subsidies for electoral expenses established in the LOREG, and the processing and resolution of the annual state subsidies regulated in Law 8/2007.

The Provision that attributes the aforementioned powers to the General Directorate of Internal Policy, with the name of its predecessor: the General Directorate of Electoral Processes, Immigration and Asylum, is Royal Decree 1907/1995, of November 24, which regulates the processing of annual state subsidies and for electoral expenses to political formations 

A. Common processing procedure for subsidies regulated by Organic Law 5/1985, of the General Electoral Regime (LOREG)

The legislation to take into account is the following: Chapter VII, Title I, articles 121 to 134, of the aforementioned law of the General Electoral Regime and Chapter II, articles 6 to 26, of Royal Decree 1907/1995, of November 24, which regulates the processing of Annual State Subsidies and Electoral Expenses to Political Formations.

The State subsidizes the expenses incurred by parties, federations, coalitions or groups for their participation in the elections to the Congress of Deputies and the Senate, the European Parliament and Municipal and Council Elections. In no case may the subsidy corresponding to each political group exceed the amount of declared electoral expenses, justified by the Court of Accounts in the exercise of its supervisory function.

The aforementioned regulations establish that the State will grant advances prior to the final settlement with the following mechanism: advance payment of 30% and advance payment of 90%.

B. Advance payment of 30% (article 127 bis LOREG)

1. Application:

They will be requested by the Administrators of the Candidacies before the Provincial Electoral Boards, except in the case of parties, federations or coalitions that participate in more than one province, in which case, the request will be presented by the General Administrators directly before the Electoral Board Central. The deadline to make this request is established between the 21st and 23rd days after the call.

2. Concession:

The advances will be made available to the electoral administrators from the 29th day after the call, provided that the General Subdirectorate of Internal Policy and Electoral Processes has received the necessary documentation so that the Public Treasury can subsequently carry out the transfer of the amounts. to which they have the right.

The State will grant advances of the aforementioned subsidies to the parties, federations and coalitions that have obtained them in the last elections to the Cortes Generales, the European Parliament or, where appropriate, in the last municipal elections, and have not been deprived of the same subsequently in accordance with the provisions of the previous article. The amount advanced may not exceed 30 percent of the subsidy received by the same party, federation, association or coalition in the last equivalent elections, and the same percentage of the subsidy that results from the application of the provisions contained in articles 175.3. , 193.3 and 227.3 of this law, according to the electoral process in question.

The advances will be returned, after the elections, in the amount in which they exceed the amount of the subsidy that has finally been received.

The full refund of the advance granted will also proceed if the acquisition by the elected members belonging to said political formations of the full status of Deputy, Senator, member of the European Parliament or member of the of the corresponding local corporation and the effective exercise of the position for which they had been elected and for whose election the subsidies included in this law have been or will be accrued.

3. Voter Groups are not entitled to these advances.

C. 90% advance (article 133 LOREG)

Between 100 and 125 days following the holding of the elections, the electoral administrator of the Political Parties, Federations, Coalitions and Groups of Voters must present to the Court of Accounts a detailed accounting of the income and expenses incurred on the occasion of the election. celebration of the electoral process. Said presentation will proceed whether the formation has obtained an elected candidate, or if it does not obtain one but has received the 30% advance payment described above.

Within 30 days after this presentation, the electoral administrators are advanced 90% of the amount of the subsidies that, in accordance with the criteria established by the Law, correspond to them according to the general results published in the BOE, discounted in their case, the 30% advance payment. The General Directorate of Internal Policy (DGPI) will notify the amount to the corresponding administrator so that the 10% guarantee on the 90% advance to be received is constituted.

The period for the constitution of the aforementioned 10% guarantee is one month from the receipt of the notification

• • If the constitution of the guarantee is accredited before the corresponding branch of the General Deposit Fund of the Delegation of Economy and Finance, the file will be processed for the amount of 90%, discounting, where appropriate, the advance payment of 30%, if I had perceived it.
  • If the creation of the guarantee is not proven, the file will be processed, but retaining over 90%, discounting, where appropriate, the 30% advance if it has been received, 10% of it, as a guarantee, being said percentage was returned in the final settlement of the electoral process. That is, 81% of the amount of this advance would be paid, avoiding the carrying out of certain procedures that are difficult to comply with for certain formations with little infrastructure, as is the case of groups of voters.

The period to make this advance of 30 days is conditioned by the following:

1. 1. For political parties to send the necessary documentation to be able to process said advance.
   2. For the company awarded the provisional scrutiny to provide the lists with the quantification of the advance payment of 90% of the elections held.
   3. To the referral by the Court of Accounts of the relations with the political formations that have presented the accounts within the established period, with express mention of the declared expenditure figures, both for ordinary operations and for sending electoral propaganda.

Likewise, if the Electoral Administration so agrees, a certification issued by the corresponding body will be required that reliably accredits the acquisition by the elected of the political formations of the full status of Deputies, Senator, member of the European Parliament or member of the corresponding Local Corporation and the effective exercise of the position for which they had been elected.

D. Assignment of credits (article 133 LOREG)

The Administration will deliver the amount of the subsidies to the electoral administrators of the formations that must receive them, unless they have notified the Central Electoral Board, for registration in the Registry of Notifications kept in said Board, that the subsidies are paid in all or in part to the banking entities they designate, to compensate for the advances or credits that have been granted to them, payment being made in accordance with said notification, which may not be revoked without the consent of the beneficiary credit institution.

E. Subsidy transfers

The Ministry of the Interior urges the General Directorate of the Treasury and Financial Policy (the body competent to carry out the bank transfer) to pay the various subsidy payments. In order for the Ministry of the Interior to be able to process subsidies for electoral expenses, it is essential that the competent Electoral Board, or at the time the Court of Accounts, be notified, so that they can inform the General Directorate of Internal Policy, of the following :

• • Name of the political entity, indicating whether it is a party, federation, coalition or group of voters.
  • Province in which electoral results have been obtained or where the headquarters are located.
  • Identification data of the Administrator (Name, Surname, Address, City and Province), authorizing consent to verify your personal data through the Identity Data Verification System or photocopy of your ID.
  • Bank account designation model and communication of deletion of bank details from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, which can be downloaded at www.tesoro.es, choosing the “Treasury Payments” tab and within it -Designation on paper: ” Account designation model and communication of deletion of bank details”. It will be completed following the following instructions:

1. 1. In section I, creditor information, the details of the administrator appointed to the competent Electoral Board must be entered, filling in all the fields, with their NIF, name and surname.
   2.  In section III of bank details, the IBAN Code of the electoral account opened and communicated to the competent Electoral Board will be entered. Among the holders of said account there must be the electoral administrator, who is the one to whom the subsidy will be transferred.   
   3.  The credit institution must complete its section with the seal of said financial institution and signed by its employee to prove the 24 digits of the IBAN Code to be registered.                  

This information can be sent directly to the General Directorate of Internal Policy, provided that the bodies mentioned above have been previously communicated.

F. Control of subsidies

From the date of the call until the hundredth day after the elections are held, the Central and Provincial Electoral Boards ensure compliance with legal regulations regarding electoral income and expenses.

Subsequently, the formations that have received advance payments of subsidies or obtained an elected candidate are obliged to present a detailed accounting of income and expenses to the Court of Accounts, between 100 and 125 days following the holding of the elections.

G. Liquidation

The electoral accounting must be supervised by the Court of Accounts, which will submit the corresponding Report to the Joint Congress-Senate Commission for relations with the Court.

The aforementioned Commission will issue the appropriate Resolution that, once published in the BOE, will allow the General Directorate of Internal Policy to process the payment of the rest of the recognized subsidies.

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A. Elections of Deputies and Senators (General Elections)

Organic Law 3/2015, of March 30, which modifies Organic Law 5/1985, of June 19, of the General Electoral Regime, in its article 175 establishes the amounts by which the State subsidizes the expenses that arise the electoral activities of the political formations (by Ministerial Order in the five days following the call of the elections, the amounts indicated in the LOREG are updated).

1. Subsidies for electoral results
   • Subsidy of 21,167.64 euros for each seat obtained in the Congress of Deputies or the Senate.
   • Subsidy of 0.81 euros for each of the votes obtained by each candidate for Congress, at least one of whose members had obtained a seat as a Deputy.
   • Subsidy of 0.32 euros for each of the votes obtained by each candidate who had obtained a Senator seat.
2. Maximum limit of subsidies due to electoral results

For elections to the Cortes Generales or any of its Chambers, the limit of electoral expenses will be the result of multiplying by 0.37 euros the number of inhabitants corresponding to the legal population of the constituencies where each party presents its candidacies. federation, coalition or group.

1. Subsidies for sending electoral propaganda

In addition to the previous subsidies, the State will subsidize parties, federations, coalitions or groups for electoral expenses incurred by the direct and personal sending of electoral envelopes and ballots or electoral propaganda and advertising to voters in accordance with the following rules:

1.- 0.18 euros per voter will be paid in each of the constituencies in which a list has been presented to the Congress of Deputies and the Senate, provided that the reference candidate had obtained the precise number of Deputies or Senators or votes. to constitute a parliamentary group in one or the other Chamber. Obtaining a parliamentary group in both Chambers will not give the right to receive the subsidy more than once.

2.- The subsidized amount will not be included within the limit indicated above, provided that the effective performance of the activity referred to in this section has been justified.

1. There will be no payment of subsidies in the cases established in sections 2, 3 and 4 of article 127 of the LOREG.

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B. Municipal Elections

1. Subsidies for electoral results

Organic Law 3/2015, of March 30, which modifies Organic Law 5/1985, of June 19, of the General Electoral Regime, in its article 193 establishes the amounts by which the State subsidizes the expenses that arise the electoral activities of the political formations (by Ministerial Order in the five days following the call of the elections, the amounts indicated in the LOREG are updated):

1. Subsidy of 270.90 euros for each elected councilor.
2. Subsidy of 0.54 euros for each of the votes obtained by each candidacy, at least one of whose members had been proclaimed Councilor.

1. Maximum limit of subsidies due to electoral results

For municipal elections, the limit of electoral expenses will be the result of multiplying by 0.11 euros the number of inhabitants corresponding to the legal populations of the constituencies where each party, federation, coalition or group presents its candidacies. For each province, those who participate in the elections in at least 50 percent of their municipalities may also spend another 150,301.11 euros for each of the provinces in which they meet the aforementioned condition.

1. Subsidies for sending electoral propaganda

Adicionalmente a las subvenciones anteriores, el Estado subvencionará a los partidos, federaciones, coaliciones o agrupaciones los gastos electorales originados por el envío directo y personal a los electores de sobres y papeletas electorales o de propaganda y publicidad electoral de acuerdo con las reglas siguientes:

1. Se abonará 0,18 euros por elector en cada una de las circunscripciones en las que haya obtenido representación en las Corporaciones Locales de que se trate, siempre que la candidatura de referencia hubiese presentado listas en el 50 por 100 de los municipios de más de 10.000 habitantes de la provincia correspondiente y haya obtenido, al menos, representación en el 50 por 100 de los mismos.
2. La cantidad subvencionada no estará incluida dentro del límite indicado anteriormente, siempre que se haya justificado la realización efectiva de la actividad a que se refiere este apartado

1. No habrá lugar al pago de las subvenciones en los supuestos establecidos en los apartados 2, 3 y 4 del artículo 127 de la LOREG.

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C. Elecciones de Cabildos Insulares Canarios

1. Subvenciones por resultados electorales

En las Islas Canarias se eligen por sufragio universal, directo y secreto, y en una urna distinta Consejeros Insulares de acuerdo con el número de residentes de cada isla. Las cantidades que se reflejan son las que aparecen en el artículo 201.9 de la LOREG, actualizadas por la Ley Orgánica 2/2011, de 28 de enero, por la que se modifica la Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General:

1. Subvención de 1.625,44 euros por cada Consejero Insular electo.
2. Subvención de 0,65 euros por cada uno de los votos obtenidos por cada candidatura, uno de cuyos miembros, al menos, hubiera sido proclamado Consejero Insular.

Límite máximo subvenciones por resultados electorales (artículo 209.10 LOREG)

Para las elecciones a Cabildos Insulares, el límite de los gastos electorales será el que resulte de multiplicar por 0,16 euros el número de habitantes correspondientes a la población de derecho de cada una de las islas donde presente sus candidaturas cada partido, federación, coalición o agrupación.

En materia de subvenciones electorales habrá de respetarse las limitaciones de los apartados 2, 3 y 4 del artículo 127 de la LOREG.

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D. Elecciones al Parlamento Europeo

1. Subvenciones por resultados electorales

Ley Orgánica 3/2015, de 30 de marzo, por la que se modifica la Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral General, en su artículo 227 establece las cuantías por las que el Estado subvenciona los gastos que originen las actividades electorales de las formaciones políticas (mediante Orden Ministerial en los cinco días siguientes a la convocatoria de las elecciones, se actualizan las cantidades que se indican en la LOREG):

Subvención de 32.508,74 euros por cada escaño obtenido.

1. Subvención de 1,08 euros por cada uno de los votos obtenidos por cada candidatura, uno de cuyos miembros, al menos, hubiera obtenido escaño de Diputado.Límite máximo subvenciones por resultados electorales….Para las elecciones al Parlamento Europeo, el límite de los gastos electorales será el que resulte de multiplicar por 0,19 euros el número de habitantes correspondientes a la población de derecho en las secciones electorales donde se haya solicitado que se efectúe la difusión de las papeletas.

3. Subvenciones por envíos de propaganda electoral: Además de las subvenciones anteriores, el Estado subvencionará a los partidos, federaciones, coaliciones o agrupaciones los gastos electorales originados por el envío directo y personal a los electores, en al menos una Comunidad Autónoma, de sobres y papeletas electorales o de propaganda y publicidad electoral de acuerdo con las reglas siguientes:

1. 1. Se abonarán 0,13 euros por elector, siempre que la candidatura hubiera obtenido al menos 1 Diputado y como mínimo un 15 por 100 de los votos válidos emitidos.
   2. Se abonarán 0,09 euros por elector, siempre que la candidatura hubiera obtenido al menos 1 Diputado y como mínimo un 6 por 100 de los votos válidos emitidos.
   3. Se abonarán 0,025 euros por elector, siempre que la candidatura hubiera obtenido al menos 1 Diputado y como mínimo un 3 por 100 de los votos válidos emitidos.
   4. Se abonará 0,016 euros por elector, siempre que la candidatura hubiera obtenido al menos 1 Diputado y como mínimo un 1 por 100 de los votos válidos emitidos.

La cantidad subvencionada no estará incluida dentro del límite indicado anteriormente, siempre que se haya justificado la realización efectiva de la actividad a que se refiere este apartado.

No habrá pago de subvenciones en los supuestos de los apartados 2, 3 y 4 del artículo 127 de la LOREG

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