The State Duma adopted in the pen reading a bill to increase state funding twofold
parties who have scored at least three percent of the elections to the lower house of parliament. ITAR-TASS.
As a result of the vote in 2011 under the document subject to overcome a 3-percent threshold, and in parliament “United Russia” (49.32%), the Communist Party (19.19%), “Fair Russia” (13.24%) and the Liberal Democratic Party (11.67%). In addition, state funding is provided for non-parliamentary party “Yabloko”, which gained 3.43% of the vote.
Under the current legislation, financing of political parties, who scored in the parliamentary elections of more than 3% of the vote, provided annually at the rate of 50 rubles, multiplied on the number of votes received by the federal list of candidates of the party. The bill proposes to increase this amount to 110 rubles for one vote.
According to the first deputy chairman of the relevant committee for public associations and religious organizations and one of the authors of the bill Mikhail Markelov, this change “will greatly enhance the competitiveness, as the majority of bona fide political parties will tend to result in the election to receive such support from the state. ” In addition, it seriously reduces the corruption component, he said.
It is expected that the law will come into force on 1 January next year, and the changes will cost the budget of almost 7 billion rubles.
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