28. Are there provisions for direct public funding to political parties?
Moldova, Republic of
Article 27, para. 1, letter a), b) of the Law on Political Parties nr. 294, of 21.12.2007
1) Political parties have the right to receive annual funding from the state budget through the Central Electoral Commission on the basis of a regulation approved by it. The amount of allocations for this purpose is approved in the annual budget law, with a percentage share of no more than 0.2% of the state budget revenues, except for the special-purpose revenues provided by the legislation, and it is distributed as follows:
a) 50% - to political parties in proportion to the performances obtained in the parliamentary elections;
b) 50% - political parties in proportion to the performances obtained in the general local elections.