4. Is there a ban on corporate donations to candidates?
 
        Timor-Leste
Financing of candidacies shall be governed by specific legislation and, with the necessary adaptations, by the applicable norms of the law on political parties.
 Source: Article 31, LAW ON THE ELECTION OF THE NATIONAL PARLIAMENT, 2006
Parties shall be prohibited to accept donations in cash from:
 a) public companies;
 b) companies, the capital stock of which belongs exclusively or
 mostly to the State;
 c) public service corporations;
 d) corporate bodies of public interest committed to philanthropic
 or religious activities;
 e) professional, labour or employer’s associations;
 f) foundations;
 g) governments or foreign corporate bodies.
 Source: Section 22, LAW No. 3/2004 ON POLITICAL PARTIES, 2004