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2017
Early election
EAM
Parliamentary
elections
To foster greater transparency and make the reporting system more effective, donations to parties and the entities they own should be subject to similar reporting and public disclosure requirements.
Recommendation # in final report:
4
Type of recommendation:
Priority
Thematic area:
Campaign Finance
Type of change required:
Legal
Status of implementation:
Partially
Year of assessment:
2022
Final report heading:
Political Party and Campaign Finance
Malta
2017
Early election
EAM
Parliamentary
elections
To enhance transparency and enable voters to make informed choices, authorities could consider introducing a requirement that all election-related campaign materials contain imprint data with information about the entity that ordered and paid for their production and display.
Recommendation # in final report:
5
Type of recommendation:
Priority
Thematic area:
Campaign Finance
Type of change required:
Legal
Status of implementation:
Not implemented
Year of assessment:
2022
Final report heading:
Political Party and Campaign Finance
Malta
2017
Early election
EAM
Parliamentary
elections
To enhance transparency and facilitate oversight, consideration could be given to a requirement that donations above a certain amount only be made through a designated bank account. Moreover, authorities could consider requiring parties to record all donations and lowering the disclosure threshold.
Recommendation # in final report:
13
Type of recommendation:
Other
Thematic area:
Campaign Finance
Type of change required:
Legal
Status of implementation:
Not implemented
Year of assessment:
2022
Final report heading:
Political Party and Campaign Finance
Malta
2017
Early election
EAM
Parliamentary
elections
To assure equality among candidates and foster legal certainty, the ministerial power to change candidates’ spending ceiling could be reconsidered. Consideration could be given to adjust the spending limit based on a form of indexation rather than an absolute amount.
Recommendation # in final report:
14
Type of recommendation:
Other
Thematic area:
Campaign Finance
Type of change required:
Legal
Status of implementation:
Not implemented
Year of assessment:
2022
Final report heading:
Political Party and Campaign Finance
Malta
2017
Early election
EAM
Parliamentary
elections
To enhance transparency, parties’ elections-related income and expenditure should be made public shortly after the elections. Consideration could also be given to introducing a disclosure requirement on income and expenditure before election day.
Recommendation # in final report:
15
Type of recommendation:
Other
Thematic area:
Campaign Finance
Type of change required:
Practice
Status of implementation:
Not implemented
Year of assessment:
2022
Final report heading:
Political Party and Campaign Finance
Malta
2017
Early election
EAM
Parliamentary
elections
To improve the effectiveness of the sanctioning procedures, authorities could consider reviewing the legislation to allow anyone to initiate campaign finance violation proceedings without the necessary recourse to the Attorney General or the EC.
Recommendation # in final report:
16
Type of recommendation:
Other
Thematic area:
Campaign Finance
Type of change required:
Legal
Status of implementation:
Not implemented
Year of assessment:
2022
Final report heading:
Political Party and Campaign Finance
Malta
2022
Early election
EET
Parliamentary
elections
The legal framework should be reviewed to enhance the oversight system, including by providing the Electoral Commission with adequate powers and resources to carry out a pro-active and efficient supervision, investigation and enforcement of political finance regulations. The Auditor General could be empowered to carry out pro-active investigations, and publish findings on the misuse of public resources for campaign purposes.
Recommendation # in final report:
4
Type of recommendation:
Priority
Thematic area:
Campaign Finance
Type of change required:
Legal
Status of implementation:
Not evaluated
Final report heading:
Political Party and Campaign Finance
Malta
2022
Early election
EET
Parliamentary
elections
To further facilitate political pluralism consideration could be given to the introduction of a meaningful public funding system for political parties, based on fair and reasonable criteria.
Recommendation # in final report:
15
Type of recommendation:
Other
Thematic area:
Campaign Finance
Type of change required:
Legal
Status of implementation:
Not evaluated
Final report heading:
Campaign Finance
Malta
2022
Early election
EET
Parliamentary
elections
To foster transparency, party-controlled entities should be subject to the same rules that govern the funding of the political parties.
Recommendation # in final report:
16
Type of recommendation:
Other
Thematic area:
Campaign Finance
Status of implementation:
Not evaluated
Final report heading:
Campaign Finance
Malta
2022
Early election
EET
Parliamentary
elections
Consideration could be given to introducing measures to prevent disproportionate spending of political parties, such as, establishing limits on party’s campaign expenditure and regulating financing by third parties.
Recommendation # in final report:
17
Type of recommendation:
Other
Thematic area:
Campaign Finance
Type of change required:
Legal
Status of implementation:
Not evaluated
Final report heading:
Campaign Finance
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