The minister told the parliament that following the recommendations from Brussels, the the government proposed that the Office of the Chief State Auditor annually examines the business performance of political parties and other political protagonists including mayors, independent candidates and ethnic minorities' representatives.
The State Election Commission (DIP) is to be given additional powers so that it can supervise the financing of election campaigns of participants in the election, apart from supervising and organising the polls. Therefore, the government is planning to employ five experts in the DIP in order to enable the commission to perform its new tasks, according to Mlakar.
All who run in elections are expected to publish data on sources of their funds and amounts of funds for campaigns.
All protagonists in elections are to set up separate accounts for funds for their campaigns.
The new legislation also lowers upper limits for donations which individuals or companies can give to political parties and candidates in elections.
The new law imposes the upper limits on spending in campaigns. Thus, the maximum amount for candidates running in presidential election would be HRK 8 million and 1.5 million kuna for a candidate or candidates' list for the national parliament and the European Parliament per electoral unit.
After the minister's address, parliamentary parties began discussing the bill.