Zagreb - The Croatian Parliament's Committee on the Constitution and Rules of Procedure has decided on the distribution of HRK 54.9 million (€7.32m) for the work of political parties and independent members of Parliament, as provided for in this year's budget.
The money will be divided according to the election results, and the parties will receive HRK 352,351 per male MP and 387,587 per female MP as the underrepresented gender.
The largest amount, of HRK 22.4 million, goes to the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which has 45 male and 16 female lawmakers in the present 151-seat parliament.
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has 19 male and 15 female MPs and will receive HRK 12.5 million, while the Homeland Movement (DP) will get HRK 3.9 million for eight male and three female MPs, even though the 18 lawmakers expelled from the SDP have in the meantime formed their own Social Democrats group and the DP has been left without its founder, Miroslav Škoro, and a few more MPs.
Bridge, with seven male MPs and one female, will receive HRK 2.8 million. HRK 1.8 million will go to the We Can! platform (3 male and 2 female MPs), HRK 1.1 million to the Independent Democratic Serb Party (1 male and 2 female MPs), and HRK 1.09 million to the Istrian Democratic Party (2 male MPs and 1 female).
The Croatian Social Liberal Party, the Croatian Peasant Party, and the Croatian Conservative Party each have two MPs and will each get HRK 704,000.
The New Left, the Workers' Front, the Civic and Liberal Alliance (GLAS), the Party with a First and Last Name, Centre and the Reformists each have one female MP and will each receive HRK 387,587. The same amount will also go to independent Ermina Lekaj Prljaskaj.
The HRK 54.9 million will be paid out quarterly in equal amounts into the bank accounts of the political parties and independent MPs.
(€1 = HRK 7.5)