29. What are the eligibility criteria for political parties to receive public funding?
Mongolia
- Share of votes in previous election
- Share of seats in previous election
Article 19, Law on Political Parties, 2005
19.1. Government shall subsidize the party who has seats in the parliament for one time within three months after the election result is announced. Each vote shall be valued as one thousand tugrug and votes of the party in parliamentary election shall be compared to the total number of votes.
19.2. Party who has seats in the parliament shall be subsidized quarterly from the state budget during the term of office and for each seat in the parliament shall be subsidized by ten million tugrug. 50 percent of this subsidization shall be spent for the parliamentary election unit areas.
19.3. The money amount stated in 19.1, 19.2 of this law can be changed depending on the exchange rate.