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Danish Social Democrats calls for reform of party donation rules to make political funding more open

Friday, 12 July 2013
Denmark is trying to improve on its politics by making it cleaner than it is. All information on cash flows to political parties should be publicly available, the Social Democrats Party contend.

Denmark is a very clean country when it concerns politics. This is the least corrupt country in the world but the Danes still feel that they still have more work to do to make its politics more appealing, cleaner, and trusted.

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 Danish Prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt and leader of the Social Democrats



The reason for this is that the fact that Denmark is least corrupt does not mean that there are no forces in the country trying to buys politicians and polices. We all know about party funding and how this can related to polices and political decisions and direction. The Danish  rules on party funding, which has been around for more than 20 years, is outdated and in need of revision, according to Danish Social Democrat party secretary, Lars Midtiby.

He told the Danish daily, Berlingske that there has been a growing distrust among voters to party support and, therefore, the Social Democrats are calling for more transparency.

Today, parties are not required to disclose how much money they get from companies, interest groups, and private donors.
In recent years, it sparked criticism from the Council of Europe anti-corruption unit, Greco, and Transparency International.
Lars Midtiby believes in a broad political agreement on new rules before the next general election, and he believes that all cash flows to be published. In addition, those donated to his party from the trade union movement.
by Scancomark.com Team

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