Political parties should have a website where all the documents to which the electoral advertisements made reference would be published. Electoral advertisement should not appear before those documents were published.
If political parties participating in the elections were obliged to have a website where all documents referred to in political advertisements, i.e. contracts, invoices, it would be possible – even before the elections – to ensure an effective public control of financial flows through which electoral campaigns are paid.
Sources:
- Evaluation Report of the GRECO Group of the Council of Europe regarding Transparency of party funding (Theme II) in the Czech Republic, Strasbourg, 1 April 2011, point 71.v., viii. a ix.
- Points 205 and 206 of Guidelines on political party regulation, CDL-AD(2010)024 (Venice Commission/OSCE/ODIHR), Venice, 15-16 October 2010
- Art. 10 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.C. of Recommendation of Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly 1516 (2001) on the financing of political parties, 22 May 2001
- Point 109 of the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters (Venice Commission): Guidelines and Explanatory report, Venice, 18-19 October 2002, CDL-AD(2002)023rev
- Ondráčka, D., Vymětal, P., Transparent financing of electoral campaigns to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2013, Transparency International Czech Republic, Otakar Motejl Fund – Our Politicians, 2013, p. 15 - 16
- Vondráček, O., Havrda, M., 21 recipes – Anti-corruption cookbook, Recipe 8: Transparent financing of electoral campaigns, December 2013
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