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

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Portugal

Answer
Equal Proportional to votes received
Source

Article 5 Public subsidy for the funding of political parties 1 - Each party that has participated in an election, even in a coalition, and that obtains representation in the Assembly of the Republic, is granted, under the terms of the following numbers, an annual subsidy, if it requires it to the President of the Assembly of the Republic. 2 - The grant consists of a cash amount equivalent to the fraction 1/135 of the minimum wage, for each vote obtained in the most recent election of deputies to the Assembly of the Republic. 3 - In the case of an electoral coalition, the subsidy due to each of the parties included in it shall be equal to the subsidy that, according to the preceding paragraph, corresponds to the respective electoral coalition, distributed proportionally according to the deputies elected by each party, unless expressly provided in a different sense consistent with the coalition agreement. 4 - Each parliamentary group, the only representative of a party and the non-member of the parliamentary group of the Assembly of the Republic, shall be awarded annually a grant for the expenses of advising Members for political and partisan activity in which they participate and for other operating expenses, corresponding to four times the minimum annual salary, plus half of the value of the same, per Member, to be paid monthly, in accordance with paragraph 6. 5 - The parliamentary groups originating from parties that have participated in coalition to the electoral act are considered as a single parliamentary group for the purposes of the previous number. 6 - The aforementioned subsidies are paid in twelfths, on account of special appropriations for that purpose included in the Budget of the Assembly of the Republic. 7 - The subsidy provided for in the preceding paragraphs is also granted to parties that, having competed for the election to the Assembly of the Republic and have not obtained parliamentary representation, obtain a number of votes of more than 50,000, if they require it to the President of the Assembly of the Republic.

 Source CAPÍTULO III ( Funding of political parties) Decree of the Assembly of the Republic No. 194 / XIII: Political Funding -Alteration to the Law aproved Friday, March 9, 2018 Series II-A - Number 82

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