Unfortunately, corruption, and especially politics, does not go out of style and is permeated not only in our country, but spread like a great evil throughout the world, and with dire consequences of all kinds. Lately we have learned that the European Commission calculates that corruption costs the European economy about 120,000 million euros a year. In Spain, the whole world knows of a number of cases, and not only the most publicized ones, but also those that occur at lower municipal levels, on a continuous basis.
All this introduction is to talk about the title that we have put in this article. Let us remember that we spent twelve years without any type of Financing law, since the first was dated July 2, 1987, in which very succinctly mentioned the resources that the parties could have from private financing. This law was replaced by an organic law of July 4, 2007, modified on March 31, 2015 and which made explicit in the statement of reasons that the previous ones had not adequately guaranteed the sufficiency, regularity and transparency of the economic activity of the matches. Mention was also made of the irregularities that had been detected in the financing of political parties. Therefore, we have been dragging it, and suffering its consequences, since practically the beginning of democracy.
It must be noted that with the content of the law it should be possible for some democratic parties in the development of their functions to be financed by strictly complying with it, but this has not been the case from the beginning and has caused all the parties to seek ways to finance their budgets, which obviously have always been much higher than the legal financing, and especially when they have formed part of an administration, be it municipal, regional or state.
The problem has been that these "solutions" to finance the parties have been the first step to move to other financing, which no longer had anything to do with that of the party itself, and without rigid controls by the administrations or the corresponding bodies, which has given rise to unscrupulous politicians taking the opportunity to line their pockets through all kinds of actions and criminal activities.
Corruption is like a cancer that, if not stopped as soon as possible, continues to spread and eventually suffocates a democratic society, destroying all institutions at the same time.
From all of this it can be deduced that if we again amend the Party Financing Law that could assume the real costs of a party, and the penalties for illicit financing crimes and acts of personal corruption derived from political activities were increased, perhaps we would achieve significantly reduce the current levels of corruption and embezzlement, and thus protect our weak democracy.
