VIDEO ⟩ There is support, there is no action. Amendments to stricter regulation of state funding of parties are involved in the Saeima

The most critical one is Ainārs Šlesers, whose “Latvija first” party of the forces elected in the Saeima currently receives the least from the budget – about half a million euro a year: “Let the parties be accountable to the voters! If they break the budget. law, then they must be punished.

“Jaunā Vienotīb” currently receives the most funding from the state budget – this year and next year it is 1.12 million euros per year funding for parties should happen in the Saeima, and she is a face However, it can be guessed that stricter restrictions on parties do not receive unique support from the Prime Minister.

“Recently, we have been talking more and more about the fact that there should be less administrative, bureaucratic obstacles, and give more freedom to companies as well. Well, I also think that we should definitely listen to what the members themselves, the political parties, think, how they see it, how that funding is used Because, of course, it was KNAB’s opinion should be taken into account, but they are not the users of the funding, not the ones who practically deal with it. the parties have spent this budget, where they spend it,” Siliņa believes.

It should be added here that the public cannot understand in detail how “Jaunā Vienotība”, like other parties, for example, spent the money given to it in 2023, from its available annual report in public.

“De Facto” told the President’s office that Edgars Rinkēvičs had discussed the draft law submitted by Levitt with all groups of the Saeima when he took office. His further progress in the Saeima depends on the legislator’s political decision.

The president himself believes that the use of state budget funding for parties depends on both the letter and the spirit of the law, as well as the honest fulfillment of the requirements of the law and compliance with the purpose of the law in practice. “Normativeness cannot replace common sense,” says Rinkēvičs.