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The total amount of election campaign costs per candidate or candidate slate shall not exceed the following amounts:
- HRK 8,000,000.00 (eight million Croatian kuna) in case of elections for the President of the Republic of Croatia;
- HRK 1,500,000.00 (one million five hundred thousand Croatian kuna) within a single constituency in case of the election of deputies to the Croatian Parliament:
- HRK 1,500,000.00 (one million five hundred thousand Croatian kuna) in case of the election of members of the European Parliament;
- HRK 500,000.00 (five hundred thousand Croatian kuna) in case of elections for the Mayor of the City of Zagreb;
- HRK 400,000.00 (four hundred thousand Croatian kuna) in case of elections for county prefects and the mayors of major cities and county seats;
- HRK 250,000.00 (two hundred and fifty thousand Croatian kuna) in case of elections for city and municipal chief officials in local governmental units with a population exceeding 10,000;
- HRK 100,000.00 (one hundred thousand Croatian kuna) in case of elections for city and municipal chief officials in local governmental units with populations from 3,001 to 10,000; and
- HRK 50,000.00 (fifty thousand Croatian kuna) in case of elections for city and municipal chief officials in local governmental units with a population not exceeding 3,000.
The amounts specified in paragraph (1)(iv), (v), (vi), (vii) and (viii) of this Article with regard to elections for chief executives in local and regional governmental units shall also apply to elections for members of their representative bodies units.
If the total amount of donations received to finance election campaign costs exceeds the eligible amount of election campaign costs as specified in paragraph (1) of this Article, political parties, independent slate heads and candidates shall return the total amount of donations exceeding the eligible amount of election campaign cost to their payer, in proportion to any such amount as may have been donated.