Time to clean up the dirty flood of secret money into political parties – Greenpeace

Source: Greenpeace AotearoaThe flood of secret money flowing into political parties shows the urgent need to clean up the electoral finance rules if we are to avoid a US-style system of one-dollar-one-vote, says Greenpeace Aotearoa. “This flood of secret money into political parties is a systemic threat to our democracy. We need to clean up the electoral finance rules as a matter of urgency,” says Dr Russel Norman, Greenpeace Aotearoa Executive Director. There has been a surge of ‘anonymous’ donations into political parties, nearly $500,000 so far this year. While the identity of the donors is kept secret from the public, there is no way of knowing if in fact the parties receiving the money know the identities.