28. Are there provisions for direct public funding to political parties?

(1) The parties receive funds as partial financing for the activities generally incumbent upon them under the Basic Law. The benchmark for the distribution of state funds is the success that a party achieves among the voters in European, Bundestag and Landtag elections, the sum of its membership and mandate holder contributions as well as the amount of the donations it has raised.
Source: § 18(1), Political Parties Act, 1967 (amended 2018)