Parliament has approved the final amendments to a reform which will bring more transparency around political donations and campaign spending. The legislation, approved by the larger chamber of parliament on Tuesday, will oblige political parties to declare all donations above CHF15,000 ($16,700). Organisers of election or vote campaigns will have to come clean about expenses above CHF50,000. Anonymous political donations and donations from abroad will also be banned. Inspections will be carried out to check whether politicians are being upfront. The legislation was batted back and forth between chambers in recent weeks, with the main bone of contention that Senators wanted to be exempt from the rules. They argued that – as representatives of the cantons – they should be held accountable by cantonal rules on funding. In the end, a compromise was reached which says they will only be subject to the new rules once elected People’s initiative The new rules, set to be formally...
