Italy - 2012 Party Finance Law

Title Article 6 - Establishing a common criterion for all types of elections in order to have access to the reimbursement of electoral expenses
Article

6

1. The following amendments are brought to article 9 of the Law no. 515 of December 10th 1993 with the further amendments:
a) line 2 shall be replaced with the following text:
"2. The fund for reimbursement of electoral expenses made for the renewal of Republic's Senate is distributed regionally. In this respect, the fund is divided per regions, proportional to the region's population. The share of each region is divided between political parties, movements and groups of candidates, proportionally to the votes obtained at regional level, on condition that they have at least one candidate for the region. Chosen candidates that are not part of a group shall also participate to fund's distribution";
b) line 3 shall be replaced with:
"3. The fund for reimbursement of electoral expenses for the renewal of the Chamber of Deputies is distributed proportionally with the obtained votes, between political parties and movements that have at least one chosen candidate".

Categories - Party finance (Direct public funding)
Source http://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:legge:2012-07-06;96