The two-year project will cost 440,000 kuna, which has been secured by the Academy for Educational Development that is financed by the US government. Experts with the Faculty of Political Science and the Zagreb Law School will participate in drawing up the bill.
"The law on the financing of political parties and election campaigns must be adopted because the existing legislation is incomplete, which was evidenced by the last elections," Petrovic said at a news conference.
"If relevant legislation had existed, the payment of 500,000 kuna into a private account of a presidential candidate could have been prevented, as could local politicians from financing their campaigns from local budgets," Petrovic said.
TIH believes that all candidates, whether independent lists or political parties, should submit to voters information on the financing of their campaigns despite the fact that relevant legislation does not exist at the moment.
Petrovic also said that TIH would request the national television network HTV to be allowed to inspect the costs incurred by political parties and independent candidates in local elections last May, as it had done after the presidential elections.
"The strongest media company has stated recently that the marketing costs of parties are treated equally as other marketing costs, which cannot be tolerated," Petrovic said.