Labor Party suggests financing political organizations from state budget

The Labor Party considers the political organizations should be again financed from the state budget. In a news conference on Wednesday, the party's chairman Gheorghe Sima said the state administration's refusal to finance the parties from the budget makes the political organizations seek help from private persons and mafia clans from the country and abroad, which is a direct attack on state security, Info-Prim Neo reports. “The parties play an important role in the country's development. We wonder why the state approved laws on political organizations, but refuses to finance and promote them,” said Gheorghe Sima. He also said the Moldovan governors realize that the parties should be financed from the state budget, but they do not want this. “It suits them not to have legislation that would regulate the activity of the parties,” he added. According to Gheorghe Sima, the parties will ensure more efficient public political control if they are allotted money from the budget. They will more effectively work with the population, will formulate ideologies and will be independent from private capital. The leader of the Labor Party proposed allocating by 300,000 lei a year to every political organization. About 10 million lei will be needed annually for the purpose. Sima said the political parties are financed from the state budget in 53 countries. The Labor Party called on the parliamentary parties to amend the law on parties and sociopolitical organizations so that it allows financing them from the state budget. Adopted at the end of 2007, the law on the financing of political parties took effect on February 29, 2008. On November 6, 2009, the Parliament decided that the parties will be financed from the state budget starting with 2013 owing to the economic crisis.