The political party funding system needs an adjustment so as to create more representativeness options. The current system blocks new parties and advantages the parties that are connected to the large business and the power. It is also important to solve the problem of traceability of the own sources of party funding, shows the National Human Development Report 2015/2016, launched by UNDP Moldova, IPN reports.

The report authors say it is necessary to improve the current party funding procedures by making individual donations simpler and safer and creating barriers to monopolist donors. It is also necessary to penalize the illegalities and abuses on a scale of proportionality of responsibility to the state and members of these parties in case of licit financing, including in healthcare.

As an essential measure, the study mentions the amendment of the legislation on political parties and the Election Code so as to decease the ceiling of membership dues and annual amounts collected from 0.3% of the state budget revenues to 0.2%, to prevent the unjustified influence of the private sector on party funding, to diminish the share of financing from private sources.

The report authors consider it is vital to exclude the interference of political parties in the public service system and to amplify the legal mechanisms for strengthening internal democracy within political parties. Concomitantly, transparency norms are required and penalties proportional to the identified deviations should be imposed.

The National Human Development Report 2015/2016 analyzes inequalities that affect the sustainable development of the country and have a negative impact on the population’s welfare.