Enhancing Peru's political finance framework

This chapter reviews the legal, administrative and institutional framework upon which political campaigns are financed in Peru. It also discusses the challenges to effective oversight of these laws and regulations, and potential means by which to strengthen the system against impropriety. Due to the fact that political parties solely rely on private funding, the risk of policy capture by powerful private interests is high in Peru. Introducing balanced funding of political parties and election campaigns is a key policy lever to mitigate the risk of policy capture and increase integrity in the public sector.