PL misses deadline for list of donations

Labour has failed to submit the list of financial donations it received last year, as required by the party financing law, as it has yet to register with the Electoral Commission.
In contrast, the Nationalist Party, Alternattiva Demokratika, Moviment Patrijotti Maltin and Partit Demokratiku have all adhered to their deadlines to submit the list.

The law is intended to regulate donations and make political parties more accountable and transparent. The maximum donation that could be received from the same source was capped at €25,000 per year, with the Electoral Commission assuming the role of regulator.
The Financing of Political Parties Act was hailed by the Labour Party as a “historic breakthrough”, as it had been in the pipeline for several years under successive PN governments but never enacted.
The PL applied to register as a political party with the Commission last June. However, in Nov-ember, this newspaper revealed that the official recognition had been delayed due to clauses in the party’s statute flagged by the commission as being “out of line” with the law.

At the time, the PL informed the commission that it would make the necessary amendments to its statute in “the...