36. Is the provision of direct public funding to political parties tied to gender equality among candidates?

The funds allocated from the State Budget for funding of statutory activities of political parties shall be distributed between the eligible parties by the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption as follows:

1) 10 percent of the total annual amount of funding of the statutory activities of political parties provided for by Article 17-2 of this Law shall be equally divided between those political parties, which are eligible to such funding in accordance with this Law and, based on the results of the most recent regular or early parliamentary elections, ensured that the number of representatives of one sex among the elected Members of Parliament who assumed their offices does not exceed two-thirds of the total number of the Members of Parliament who were elected from that party.

Source: Article 17⁵ para.1 subpara. 1, Law On Political Parties, 2019

Political parties that passed five percent threshold and met gender quotas shall receive additional public funding.