29. What are the eligibility criteria for political parties to receive public funding?

"It is the responsibility of the National Commission of Elections to approve the distribution of the funds from the public financing for the presidential and legislatives elections, having for the second case in mind the parliamentary representation and the balance of the candidates subscripted for the elections in accordance with the seats to be filled."

(Article 38, Electoral Law, no 12/2014 of 23 April 2014, amending Law no 8/2013 of 27 February 2013).

"The electoral law of Mozambique (Law 6/2013, 35.2.) provides for the funding of political parties by the State. According to the law the criteria for the distribution of public party funding is to be determined by the CNE (Law 6/2013, 36). It supplies broad guidelines for the CNE as far as legislative elections are concerned, requiring that the CNE take into account the representation of parties in parliament and the number of candidates fielded in relation to the seats at stake.

Accordingly, the CNE has established the formula of allocating one third of the funding to presidential candidates, one third to political parties represented in parliament in proportion to the seats held by each party and the final third to parties fielding candidates for parliament based on the proportion of candidates fielded (EISA 2004, 12)."

(EISA Africa, Democracy Encyclopaedia Project, Mozambique: Party funding, updated July 2009 available at: https://www.eisa.org.za/wep/mozparties4.htm). 

"As verbas do Orçamento Geral do Estado referidas na alinea c) do artigo 17 sao atribuidas aos partidos politicos proporcionalmente ao numero de deputados eleitos para a Assembleia da Republica."

(Article 20(1), Law on Political Parties n° 7/91, 23 January 1991).