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

Lithuania

Lithuania

Answer
Proportional to votes received Other
Source

Law on political parties (2004, last amended 2021), Article 21

Comment

Article 21.4: 1) by summing up only the votes of voters cast for the candidates of those political parties which received not less that 2 % of all votes, the number of all votes is determined; 2) a six-month financial coefficient of one voter’s vote is established by dividing the half of the state budget appropriations designated for funding activities of the political party by the number of votes of all the voters; 3) the six-month state budget appropriations allocated for the political party to fund activities of the political party is determined by multiplying a six-month financial coefficient of one voter’s vote by the number of votes of the voters who cast their votes for the candidates of this political party.

Article 21.6: If, after elections to the parliament, a new political party is registered in the Register of Legal Entities is a parliamentary party, its activities shall be financed from the state budget appropriations equal to the lowest state budget appropriations designated to parliamentary party  in the previous calendar year multiplied by the ratio of the number of members of the parliamentary group of new parliamentary party and of the the number of members of parliamentary group of the least-funded parliamentary party.

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