PEC 9/2023 | Sanction for Parties | House of Representatives

Political parties must allocate at least 5% of the resources from the party fund to the creation and maintenance of programs promoting and disseminating women's political participation. At the discretion of the parties, the resources may be accumulated across different fiscal years and used in future election campaigns for their respective female candidates.

The amount of campaign finance funds and the portion of party funds allocated to election campaigns, as well as the free airtime on radio and television to be distributed by parties to their respective female candidates, must be at least 30%, regardless of the number of female candidates.

However, the proposed amendment will grant amnesty to parties that have not used the minimum percentages for financing women's campaigns and for promoting and disseminating women's political participation. Furthermore, the amendment allows parties that, if they fail to use resources for programs promoting female candidates or have not been recognized by the Electoral Court by the time of the election, they may use this amount for subsequent elections.

The text also stipulates that no sanctions of any kind, including the return of funds, fines, or suspension of party funding, will be applied to parties that did not meet the minimum gender or race quota or that did not allocate the minimum amounts corresponding to these purposes in elections held before the amendment was enacted.