23. Is there a ban on political parties engaging in commercial activities?

Law on financing political parties (2018), Article 19

The political parties cannot carry out an economic activity, and cannot acquire other types of incomes, except the following:

- interest on a bank deposit,

- rent, i.e. lease of movable and immovable property of the party,

- incomes from sale of printed, audio and visual and digital publications and advertising materials and other publications where the name or any of the symbols of the political party are affixed, as well as incomes from copyrights, and

- incomes from tickets sale for attending events organized for party purposes, where the name or any of the symbols of the political party must be affixed to the tickets

The political parties must not use the above-mentioned incomes for making profit.