Bill on financing the political parties

TIRANA, Oct 11 – The Ad Hoc parliamentary Committee on the electoral reform has allegedly agreed on a chapter on the political parties’ finances.
The bill explains in detail the way how the public funds are going to be distributed to the political parties that will register to take part in the general elections.
The bill also regulates the financial funds political parties are eligible to receive from non-public sources.
This bill foresees that 50 per cent of the public funds for the electoral campaigns are going to be distributed among the political parties in Parliament.
The political parties will not be allowed to take financial support from foreign citizens and the highest amount to be contributed should not surpass one million Lek.
Transparency of the money political parties use during the electoral campaigns have always been a mystery in post-communist Albania.