Tòa án tối cao Ấn Độ bác bỏ biện pháp gây quỹ cho Modi

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India’s Supreme Court on Thursday struck down (quật ngã) a contentious fund-raising mechanism (cơ chế huy động vốn) that allowed individuals and corporations (tập đoàn) to make anonymous political donations (quyên góp chính trị ẩn danh), a system that was widely seen as an advantage for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing party.

Though the judgment came just months before the country’s next general election, probably too late to affect its outcome, activists said it could bring more accountability to campaign finance down the road.

In 2017, when Mr. Modi’s government introduced the electoral bonds system (hệ thống trái phiếu bầu cử), his finance minister argued that it was needed to bring transparency (minh bạch) into campaign funding (chiến dịch gây quỹ). Opposition politicians and other critics noted that the nature of the system seemed better designed to benefit politicians already in power.

In a recent report, the Association for Democratic Reforms or A.D.R., a nonprofit working to clean up India’s elections, said that individuals and companies had purchased about $2 billion worth of electoral bonds as of last November, and that Mr. Modi’s party alone had received about 90 percent of the corporate portion of these donations in the previous financial year.

Jagdeep S. Chhokar, a member of the A.D.R. and one of the petitioners before the Supreme Court, said the judgment would prevent further damage (ngăn ngừa thiệt hại thêm) of the kind done to the electoral system over the past few years and should help level the political playing field in the future.

source: nytimes,