Portugal - 2011 Party Finance Law

Title Power to apply sanctions
Chapter 1 - The Entidade das Contas e Financiamentos Pol?ticos (Supervising Body of Political Party Accounting and Funding) is an independent body which works with the Constitutional Court, providing it with technical assistance in the examination and auditing of
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1 - The Constitutional Court has powers to impose the fines specified in the present chapter.

2 - The Constitutional Court acts, according to legal terms, on its own initiative or on initiative of the Supervising Body of Political Party Accounting and Funding, upon request of the Ministério Público (Public Prosecution Service) or following complaints presented by voting citizens.

3 - The proceeds of the fines revert in favour of the State.

4 - The Court may order disclosure of an extract of the decision, at the offender's expense, in one of the larger circulation national, regional or local daily newspapers, as appropriate to the case.
Categories - External oversight (Sanctions)
- External oversight (Subject of monitoring)
- External oversight (Type of authority)
Source http://www.parlamento.pt/Legislacao/Documents/Legislacao_Anotada/FinanciamentoPartidosPoliticosCampanhasEleitorais_Anotado.pdf
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