In her input Mrs Kubayi highlighted that the rapporteurs had divided the work into a comparative analysis with her report focusing on Africa and Asia and Mr Moriau focusing on Europe and the United States. An area not focused on was Latin America and it was hoped that perspectives from this region would come from the panel discussion. She indicated that the report separated private and public funding for political parties. It was fairly straightforward to define what comprised public funding and how the funds allocated were used. In many countries public funding is allocated based on proportional funding based on how each party performed at election. The question which then arose was whether this could be considered as a fair funding model? It could be argued that it was not as it perpetuates political party inequality and gives support to those already in power. The converse argument is however that the issue of equality can't be artificially promoted, as it is voters who express themselves on who their representatives are.