Ban Private Patronage of Public Power
GREEN WHITE GO MANIFESTO — 2026.10.01 · CANONICAL THREE-SENTENCE UNIT
Substantial private gifts, hidden or undisclosed loans and patron financing that create private financial dependence around senior public office should be prohibited under clear law. The Presidency should face the strictest personal rule because legitimate official support is already publicly provided.
Individuals and companies should not directly donate buildings, vehicles, materiel, equipment or equivalent operational support to law-enforcement, prosecutorial or judicial institutions. Institutions exercising coercive, prosecutorial and adjudicative public power should be publicly financed rather than dependent on private patrons.
Exact thresholds, legitimate exceptions, disclosure duties and any cooling-off rules belong in later law and the relevant policy papers.
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A patron can create influence without an obvious bribe. The rule therefore addresses both private support for officials and private sponsorship of integrity institutions.
Evidence and limits
Disclosure, audit and fiscal control must be assessed separately. Transparency is not a guarantee of savings, and seeing a financial trail is not authority to spend or seize funds.
The proposal remains distinct from current law and from evidence for individual components.
Evidence notes for this pillarRelated Hard Questions
The President receives only a symbolic statutory salary. Official residence, basic feeding, the highest necessary security and strictly defined official costs are provided only through a published statutory schedule; personal expenses outside that schedule remain personal. Private gifts, hidden private loans and patron financing are prohibited. After presidential service comes a decade of Senate service on ordinary Senator compensation.
The proposal prohibits substantial private gifts, hidden loans and patron financing of senior officials under clear law, with the Presidency subject to the strictest version. Individuals and companies should not directly donate buildings, vehicles, materiel, equipment or equivalent operational support to law-enforcement, prosecutorial or judicial institutions. Legitimate presidential living support is public and statutory. This is aimed at hidden dependence, not criminalising every ordinary personal relationship.
Detailed statutory definitions, disclosure duties and any cooling-off rules must implement the doctrine; this site supplies no invented threshold or duration.