Cash – each raised and spent – is a part of regular democratic life. It allows political participation and illustration. Cash helps to unfold the voices and concepts that type the premise of democratic politics. But it’s clear that cash can considerably distort democratic processes. As we shut the sixth month of the tremendous election yr, the difficulty of political financing has come to the fore fairly clearly in lots of the elections which have taken place.
Yukihiko Hamada, Cash in Politics (MiP) Program Supervisor at Worldwide IDEA, speaks with Magnus Öhman, Senior Advisor for Political Finance on the Worldwide Basis for Electoral Methods (IFES), to debate the crucial position of cash in politics and unravel the complexities and challenges surrounding political finance.