Senate set to vote on party and campaign financing legislation today

Today senators will debate and subsequently vote on long-awaited draft legislation originally passed in the Sejm establishing political party and campaign financing rules. Under the proposed legislation, strict limitations would be introduced, making it illegal for all political parties to receive money from enterprises, collect money from the public or carry out economic activities. Instead, parties with representation in parliament would receive substantially higher subsidies from the state budget, raised through taxes levied on the public. The Senate has added one change to the Sejm's proposal that would also make it possible for voters to designate which party their tax money goes toward. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.4) M. S.-C.