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The process of party building in the CEE democracies was intimately linked to formal and informal aspects of colonising State resources. While party regulations became more articulated, Romanian parties have taken advantage of an intricate arrangement of private and public resources for guaranteeing their financial survival. Hence, our paper aims at providing a general overview of the Romanian parties’ financial (re)sources over the last decade. Within this context, party’s members assumed a peculiar role, acting both as legitimacy providers and means of economic survival.