Instituto de Ciências Sociais
Universidade de Lisboa
Asia-Europe Democratisation and Justice Series
New Trends in Political Financing Regulation in Asia and Europe:
The New Role of Monitoring & Enforcement Bodies
Lisbon, 18-19 February 2010
Auditório Edifício Novo, Assembleia da República
Conference Co-ordinators:Luís de Sousa, ICS/UL and Natalia Figge, ASEF
Organization: Instituto de Ciências Sociais of the University of Lisbon and Asia Europe Foundation.
Collaboration:Council of Europe, GRECO – Group of States against Corruption, Assembleia da República Portuguesa, Transparency International and Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.
Participants: 35 Asian and European experts from relevant bodies in ASEM ministries, practitioners in the field of political financing and representatives from international and regional institutions (such as relevant bodies in the Council of Europe, the ASEAN Secretariat, the EC) national and international NGOs, the academe, think tanks, research institutes and the media.
Draft Programme
Day I, Thursday 18 FEBRUARY
Registration
(9:00)
Welcome to participants
(9:30)
Jorge Vala(Director of ICS/UL, Portugal)
Sol Iglesias (Director of the Intellectual Exchange Department, ASEF) and Luís de Sousa(ICS/UL, Portugal)
Keynote address
(10:00)
President of the Portuguese Constitutional Court,
Mr. Rui Moura Ramos
(TBC)
Session 1. Setting Standards in countries undergoing political transition
(10:45-12:45)
Chair:António Costa Pinto(Chairperson of the Portuguese Political Science Association)
Rei Shiratori
President of the Institute for Political Studies, Japan
“Party System Emergence and Consolidation in Transitional Countries in Asia”
Goran Fejic
Senior Adviser to the Secretary-Generals Office, IDEA, Sweden
“Democracy and the challenge of illicit political financing”
Michael Janssen
GRECO Secretariat
“Political financing: an overview of shortcomings and best practices identified in GRECO country reports so far”
Debate
Lunch
Session 2. Institutional Innovation, Performance and CapacityBuilding
(14:15-16:00)
Chair:Luís de Sousa(ICS-UL Portugal)
Tai-Hwan Lee
Senior Research Fellow at Regional Studies Program, Sejong Institute, Korea
“Enforcement aspects in Asian Political Financing Regulatory Regimes”
Miguel Fernandes
Former President of the Entidade das Contas e Financiamentos Políticos, Portugal
“Political Financing Supervisory Bodies as Innovative Responses to Political Financing”
Coffee break
Navin B. Chawla
Chief of Election Commissioner of India
"Monitoring and enforcement of campaign financing in India"
Debate
Roundtable 1. The role of supervisory bodies: mission, competences, independence, guarantees, interinstitutional cooperation and enforcement
(16:00-17:30)
Chair:Luís de Sousa (ICS/UL, Portugal)
Roundtable PFSB participants
(see list below)
Q&A
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Day II, Friday 19 FEBRUARY
Session 3. The Watchdog Role of Civil Society: potential, application and limits
(9:00-11:00)
Chair:Balint Molnar(Freedom House Europe)
Balint Molnar
Freedom House Europe
“Research Notes on Hungarian Project”
Navraj Singh Ghaleigh
LawSchool, University of Edinburgh, UK
“New Media – A Tool to Help Civil Society Monitoring Political Financing?”
Coffee break
Justin Fisher
Director of Magna Carta Institute, Brunel University, UK
“The Limits of Civil Society in Monitoring Political Finance”
Debate
Roundtable 2. Anchoring the monitoring and regulatory action of political financing supervisory bodies in civil society
(11:00-12:30)
Chair:Tinatin Ninua(TransparencyInternational – Political Corruption Programme)
Roundtable PFSB participants
(see list below)
Q&A
Lunch
Session 4. Comparativeand Regional regulatory reforms
(14:00-15:40)
Chair:Goran Fejic(Senior Adviser to the Secretary-Generals Office, IDEA, Sweden)
Eswaran Sridharan
Academic Director of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI),India
“Regulatory reforms on party and election financing in India and Asian incomparative perspective”
Tinatin Ninua
Transparency International – Political Corruption Programme
“Political finance regulations: bridging the enforcement gap. Comparative findings from Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal”
Wojciech Gagatek
Institute ofPolitical Science, Warsaw University, Poland
“Political financing regulation at the supranational Level: lessons drawn from the EU”
Debate
Coffee break
Conclusions
(16:15-16:40)
Rapporteur:Natalia Figge(ASEF)
“Presentation of main outcomes of the various plenary sessions and roundtables discussions”
Next steps: 10 guiding principles for the institutional capacitation of supervisory bodies
(16:40-17:00)
Rapporteur: Luís de Sousa(ICS/UL, Portugal)
Closing Remarks
(17:00-17:30)
Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Khanh
ASEF’s Deputy Executive Director
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List of Roundtable Participants
EUROPEAN PFSB / ASIAN PFSBUNITED KINGDOM
Stephen Rooney, Director of Communication, The Electoral Commission
IRELAND
David Waddell, Secretary, Standards in Public Office Commission
LATVIA
Natalja Titova, Division of Control of Financing of Political Parties, Latvian Anti-Corruption Bureau (KNAB)
PORTUGAL
Margarida Salema,Entidade das Contas e Financiamentos Políticos, Tribunal Constitucional
SLOVENIA
Igor Šoltes, Chairman, Court of Audit / INDIA
Navin B. Chawla Chief, Election Commissioner of India
INDONESIA
Syamsul Bahri, General Election Commission (KPU)
JAPAN
Rei Shiratori,
President of the Institute for Political Studies
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