37. Are there provisions for other financial advantages to encourage gender equality in political parties?

The mechanism is related to gender quotas, and applies to both National and European elections. If one of the two genders is represented less than the 40 per cent of the overall number of candidates to each election, parties can lose up to the 10 per cent of the funds that they receive from the allocations of 2 per thousand of the tax on the revenues of natural persons; In addition to that, parties that do not use at least the 10 per cent of their income from 2 per thousand of the tax on the revenues of natural persons for activities aimed at enhancing the participation of women in politics, have to pay administrative fines (20% of the income coming from 2 per thousand). The resource that are not assigned because of these rules, are then reassigned to those parties that observed the 40 per cent gender quota, in proportions to the votes received in the current election.