France - 2011 Party Finance Law

Title Article 9
Chapter III - PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE POLITICAL PARTIES AND BODIES AND THEIR FINANCING
Article

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The first fraction of the aids established in article 8 is allocated:
- either to the political parties and bodies having presented, on the occasion of the most recent renewal of the National Assembly, candidates that each have obtained at least 1 % of the votes cast in at least fifty constituencies;
- or to the political parties and bodies having presented candidates, on the occasion of the most recent renewal of the National Assembly only in one or more overseas departments, or in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Mayotte, New Caledonia, French Polynesia or the islands Wallis and Futuna, and whose candidates have obtained at least 1 % of the votes cast in all the constituencies where they appeared.
The distribution is performed proportionately to the number of votes obtained in the first tour of elections by each of the respective parties and bodies. The votes obtained by the candidates declared ineligible pursuant to article L.O. haven't been taken into account. 128 of the electoral code.
For the distribution stipulated in the previous paragraphs, the candidates running for Member of Parliament (deputy) indicate, where appropriate, in their candidature statement, the political party or body they join. This party or body may be chosen from a list established by decision of the Minister of the Interior published by the Official Journal of the French Republic no later than the fifth Friday prior to the polling day, or outside this list. The list comprises the group of political parties or bodies having submitted to the ministry of the interior, no later than the sixth Friday prior to the polling day, at sixteen hours, a request with the object of benefiting from the first fraction of the aids established in article 8.
The second fraction of these aids is allocated to the political parties and bodies which are beneficiaries of the first fraction, set below proportionally to the number of members of Parliament having declared to the bureau of their assembly, during the month of November, that they were registered or had joined the said party or body.
Each Member of Parliament may indicate only one political party or body for the application of the previous paragraph.
No later that December 31 of the present year, the National Assembly bureau and the Senate bureau communicate to the Prime-Minister the distribution of the member of Parliament among political parties and bodies, as it results from the declarations of the members of Parliament.
The amount of the aids allocated to each party or body is identified in a reported attached to the financial bill of the year.

Categories - Party finance (Direct public funding)
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