Parties, money according the votes

The first amendment package, approved with consensus, is related with the changes in the parties’ financial scheme for the electoral reform. Since the parties that did not win any votes were still taking money from the state and never turned the rest back, as the law requires, the respective laws have changed.

According to this code amend, there are two ways for a state financing of the parties during the campaign. First, the parties will be financed by the state after the elections, and the money will be calculated based on the votes that they will win. Secondly, the parties could take financings even before the elections, but this would be calculated as their debt to the state. If the financing that he parties have taken as state funds are higher than the votes that they have won in the elections, the state has the right to take the money from the other accounts that the parties have.

If even this is impossible and the parties will not return the debt, their punishment will be drastic. According to the new amends, these parties that will not return the debt will not be registered as subjects in the next elections. The approval of the package for financing the parties in the elections has passed without a debate at the Electoral Reform Commission, and in the next week will also pass the package of articles for gender equality, the media campaign and the registration of the electoral subjects. But the real proof for the Commission will be the amendments for the Central Election Commission reforms, the electoral administration, the voting procedure and the vote count. For these ODIHR key recommendations there is no written proposition yet. They will be planned not earlier than half of February, by putting in question the deadline for closing the electoral reform before March 31st.

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