31. What are the provisions on 'ear marking' direct public funding to political parties (how it should be used)?

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

Answer
  • Campaign spending
  • Ongoing party activities
Source

Article 8. State funding for the participation of political parties in elections to the Legislative Chamber and other representative bodies of state power
[...]
State funds allocated to finance the participation of political parties in elections to the Legislative Chamber should be spent by the political party on:
publication of means of electoral visual campaigning;
the organization of speeches for candidates for deputies of the Legislative Chamber on television, radio broadcasting and in other mass media;
the organization of meetings of candidates for deputies of the Legislative Chamber with voters;
the organization of work of proxies of candidates for deputies of the Legislative Chamber and other assets involved in election campaigning directly in the constituency;
all-party events for the conduct of the election campaign.

(Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Financing of Political Parties, 2004 available at http://www.lex.uz/pages/getpage.aspx?lact_id=168377 accessed January 2018).

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