29. What are the eligibility criteria for political parties to receive public funding?

Poland

Poland

Answer
  • Share of votes in previous election
  • Participation in election
  • Registration as a political party
Source

Article 28, para 1 of the Polish Act on Political Parties

Comment

A political party which: 1) in an election to the Sejm, having independently formed an electoral committee, received nationwide at least 3% of validly cast votes on its district lists of candidates for deputies, or 2) in an election to the Sejm was a member of a coalition, whose district lists of candidates for deputies received nationwide at least 6% of validly cast votes, shall be entitled to receive for the duration of the term of office of the Sejm, in the manner and in accordance with the rules set out in this Act, a subsidy from the state budget for its activities envisaged by its constitution, hereinafter referred to as the “subsidy”

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