30. What is the allocation calculation for political parties to receive public funding?

"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).