The time has come for party financing legislation - de Marco

The time has come for the country to have party financing legislation which would cap donations to a certain amount and keep the public informed about where certain donations are coming from, PN deputy leader Mario de Marco said today. Speaking during a radio interview, he said there was an also the argument as to whether the state should help political parties financially since they were serving a public function. Dr de Marco spoke about the PN’s financial situation and what the party was doing to turn the situation around. The party was seeing how its media, whose audience was currently shrinking, could reach the biggest possible audience. It had to see how to could make  its operations more sustainable. Dr de Marco noted that many people were offering to volunteer and the party wanted to continue appealing to these people. Some had never been close to the PN but they now wanted to stand up to be counted. “The party needs these people,” he said. Deputy leader Beppe Fenech Adami, who was also being interviewed, noted that one had to make a distinction between party and commercial operations. Each of the party’s companies had to be examined separately and its particular realities...