Political parties shall open a separate transparent bank account in the Czech Republic specifically for the purposes of electoral campaign. Political parties should be allowed to accept monetary donations and other donations for their electoral campaigns only if they were transferred from a bank account of financial institution based in an OECD country and if they were transferred to the transparent account.
If political parties were obliged to open a special transparent bank account for the purpose of election, it would be possible to separate their electoral financing from the current one and identify persons which sponsored the electoral campaign of the party.
Sources:
- Arts. 8, 11 and 13 of Recommendation of the Council of Europe Rec(2003)4 on common rules against corruption in the funding of political parties and electoral campaigns, 8 April 2003
- Point 109 of the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters (Venice Commission): Guidelines and Explanatory report, Venice, 18-19 October 2002, CDL-AD(2002)023rev
- Czech Government Anti-corruption Conception for years 2015 - 2017, chap. 2.1.2., p. 6
- Czech Government Anti-corruption Action Plan for 2015, chap. 2, p. 10
- Ondráčka, D., Vymětal, P., Transparent financing of electoral campaigns to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2013, Transparency International Czech Republic, Otakar Motejl Fund – Our Politicians, 2013, p. 16
- Vondráček, O., Havrda, M., 21 recipes – Anti-corruption cookbook, Recipe 8: Transparent financing of electoral campaigns, December 2013
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