Political parties should be allowed to accept monetary donations and other donations for their electoral campaigns from natural persons only. The amount of financial donations from individual persons should be limited.
If political parties were allowed to accept financial and other donations from natural persons only, it would be ensured that parties are financed only by natural persons having a verifiable identity. If at the same time the amount of financial donations from individual persons was limited, election campaigns could not be controlled through financial influence of political enterpreneurs.
Sources:
- Arts. 8, 9, 11 and 13 of Recommendation of the Council of Europe Rec(2003)4 on common rules against corruption in the funding of political parties and electoral campaigns, 8 April 2003
- Section 8.A. v.d. of Recommendation of Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly 1516 (2001) on the financing of political parties, 22 May 2001
- Point 11 of Guidelines on the Financing of Political Parties (Venice Commission), CDL-INF(2001)008 - (Venice, 9-10 March 2001)
- Czech Government Anti-corruption Action Plan for 2015, chap. 2, p. 10
- REST. Transparent financing of political parties and electoral campaigns [online], Reconstruction of the state, 2013, principles 2 and 6
- Vondráček, O., Havrda, M., 21 recipes – Anti-corruption cookbook, Recipe 8: Transparent financing of electoral campaigns, December 2013
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