27. Are there provisions requiring donations to go through the banking system?

Liberia

Liberia

Answer
Yes
Source

Art 7.4. 'Account of Political Parties and Requirements for Instruction and Examination
One month following the effective date of this title, all registered political parties in the country shall furnish the Commission with the names of the Banking Institutions with which they maintain accounts respectively, indicating the dates of the establishment of the banking account; the account number and the names of the party officials upon whose signatures funds are withdrawn from the bank.'

Source THE 1986 CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA, New Electoral Law

Art 14.5 'Political parties and candidates shall submit detailed statements from their designated bank accounts.'

 (Source NEC campaign Finance regulations, May 2016)

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