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

Albania

Albania

Answer
  • Share of votes in previous election
  • Share of seats in previous election
Source

"The fund shall be divided according to the following rules:
a) 70 percent shall be divided according to the number of seats obtained in the last parliamentary elections. Each party sitting in parliament shall be entitled to financial aid in accordance with the number of seats obtained based on the proportional system;
b) 20 percent shall be divided equally among parliamentary parties and the parties which have received more than 10 thousand votes in the last parliamentary elections;
c) 10 percent shall be divided according to the percentage obtained among [by] the political parties that took part in the last parliamentary elections and obtained over 1 percent of the votes.
The non-allocated remainder of the 10 percent shall be added to the 70 percent fund and it shall be divided among parliamentary parties. In any case, annual financial aid shall be awarded on the proviso that political parties have already submitted the financial report of the preceding year according to the rules defined by the Central Election Commission. Failure to submit annual financial reports shall lead to exemption of political parties from receipt of annual financial aid". 
Source: Article 19, Law on Political Parties, 2017. 

 

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