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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.
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than 20 years, is outdated and in need of revision, according to Danish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