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"Privately financed parties, and private parties, are used to cement relations with the administration."

As for the type of financing, we are extremely disturbed to see that this text allows private companies to finance parties.

"In Italy, the system of financing parties involves irregularities and illegalities which I believe have been around since the founding of the republic," he said.

Soft money, ostensibly intended to nurture party grassroots, frequently ended up financing party attack ads in hotly contested districts like the Fourth.

The Kremlin argued that the law would prevent oligarchs and criminals from financing parties and abusing immunity provisions by purchasing seats in Parliament.

Ahead of parliamentary elections on Dec. 7, Mr. Khodorkovsky had openly financed parties and candidates independent of the Kremlin.

But like wealthy elites in other countries, Mr. Khodorkovsky waded into politics, financing parties and candidates independent of the Kremlin and setting up a confrontation with Mr. Putin.

Charged with tax evasion, fraud and embezzlement, he has contended that the Kremlin is behind his arrest and prosecution because he has financed parties and candidates independent of Mr. Putin.

The accusations of corruption that prompted the impeachment effort began unfolding last year when a videotape surfaced on which a former Chirac aide, who has since died, described a vast kickback scheme used to finance party politics.

Marketing departments, too, have gotten creative in securing outside sponsors to finance parties, a trend popularized by Harvey Weinstein when he ran Miramax, the company he co-founded and later sold to Disney.

The Rhodesian government saw the conflict as a fight between one part of the country's population (the whites) on behalf of the whole population (including the black majority) against several externally financed parties made up of predominantly black radicals and communists.

Efforts to outlaw soft money, which is supposed to finance party expenses like polling, television advertisements and mailings, and is not given directly to candidates, failed in Congress in the face of strong opposition by the Republican majority in the Senate.

Wind power managing owners, along with other financing parties and equity partners, typically sell the electricity generated from wind farms to public utilities under long-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) where they receive a fixed price for the electricity.

Other issues beg for investigation, notably the seamy plan by the Republican majority leader, Tom DeLay, to exploit a charitable foundation, which aids children, by offering political donors tax exemptions as a way to finance party galas this summer at the Republican National Convention.