The Socialist Movement for Integration – 2009 Electoral Funds and Expenses

The Socialist Movement for Integration (SMI) is one of the parliamentary political parties competing in the 2009 parliamentary elections. SMI has submitted for auditing comprehensive balance sheets of its collected and spent funds after the completion of the election process. The electoral finances of this political party consist in public and non-public funds. During the 2009 electoral campaign, SMI has spent 22,889,831 Leks. Total collected…

Comparative analysis on the most expensive Election Campaign 2009 – 2013

Open Data Albania has conducted a research regarding expenditures in election campaigns held in the years 2009 – 2013, placing the values declared in a comparative position. The research is based on official data from the audit reports of the accounting experts. The most expensive campaign is the campaign for the Assembly elections held in 2013. The second most costly campaign is the one of…

‘Aleanca Kuq e Zi’ Party – Election Funding and Costs in the Campaign of 2013

‘Aleanca Kuq e Zi’ Party is a party which participated as an election subject in the last assembly elections. This party has provided for the coverage for its electoral activity a fund of 1,743,448 ALL. According to the declared reports, the party has spent the amount of 1,722,805 ALL recording an electoral fund surplus of 20.6 thousand ALL or 1.2% of the total. Source: http://www.cec.org.al/images/stories/zgjedhje-per-kuvend/2013/rap_audit/audit/A_Ku_Zi.pdfComments…

Fryma e Re Demokratike Party – Election Funding and expenses in the Election Campaign of 2013

‘Fryma e Re Demokratike’ Party is one of the electoral subjects registered for participation in the Assembly elections held on June 23, 2013. Although it is not a parliamentary party, ‘Fryma e Re Demokratike’ Party has managed to secure as the support for its electoral activities, a fund of about four million ALL. According to accounting registrations, the party spent the same amount as the…

Values for 2013 Election Campaign Donations

Open Data Albania is exploring the Private Donations of the Election Campaign 2013. The research is based on official data of the audit reports from the political party?s auditors. The conditions for donations in favor of political parties, has been defined in Section 89 of the Electoral Code by the legislature. In the last election campaign, 50 % of financial resources are private donations. From…

Financial resources, Expenses and Fund?s Exceeding in the Election Campaign of 2013

In the Assembly Election Campaign 2013, there were sixty ? eight subjects competing among which: sixty ? six political parties and two independent candidates. To support the campaign activities, political parties stated that they have accumulated a fund of 241,211,140 ALL. For the first time in the short history of the allegation of financial resources for an election campaign, the money received from donations is…

JSCs that control other companies, business groups – June 2014

Open Data Albania has conducted a research on some major groups (parent company) that own shares in JSCs controlled by them. The survey estimates the number of companies and the value of the share capital. Indicators are based on data obtained from historical extracts of JSC-s as presented in the National Registration Center NRC, in June 2014. During the research on the shareholding structure of…

Lobbying to abrogate the law that reduces the benefits of maternity, has already started; Open Data Albania makes public available the tables and the new calculations.

Soon after the detailed analysis public available at Open Data Albania on the reduction of the benefits as a result of legal amendments, members of the Group on Gender Issues in the Parlament of Albania notified on a possibility of abrogating this article, that obviously consists in legal aggravated effects. The women’s right of maternity derives from the protection of the scheme on social securities.…

Birth delivery payment decrease, government amends the legislation.

The Government has to amend article 27 of the law ‘On social securities’ which stipulates that the payment on maternity leave has to be made based upon the net payment and not based on the gross payment, consequently this consists to be an explicit violation of women?s rights.’. This request was made by the chairwoman of the Parliamentary Commission on Labour, Social Issues and Public…

Debt per capita in the years 2010-2015

Open Data Albania has taken into consideration the debt per capita in years 2010-2015. It is calculated as the ratio of total outstanding debt of the state to the population at a given time. Source: Ministry of Finance and INSTATProcessing and comments: ODA As seen from the graph, the share of debt that every Albanian citizen carries from year to year has increased, reaching a…

Financing of health per capita from the government budget in the years 2010-2015

Open Data Albania has taken into consideration the amount spent from the government budget on health in relation to the population in 2010-2015. Total funding for health from the Government Budget consists of the budget allocated to the Ministry of Health and Income mainly from contributions that are administered by the HII. Source: Ministry of Finance, INSTATProcessing and comments: Open Data AlbaniaThe amount spent on…

Cost of debt per capita in the years 2010-2015

Open Data Albania has taken into consideration the cost of debt per capita in the years 2010-2015, which expresses the amount of interest paid by the Government Budget for the outstanding loan value in relation to the population in a given year. Source: Ministry of Finance, INSTATProcessing and comments: ODA In the first part of the time period taken into consideration, the years 2010-2012, there…

Origin of Legal Persons Shareholders and of the capital of Joint Stock Companies in the Country – June 2014

Origin of Legal Persons Shareholders in Joint Stock Company registered in Albania – June 2014 Data Source: National Registration CentreComment and Analysis: Author and ODA Data Source: National Registration CentreComment and Analysis: Author and ODA Data Source: National Registration CentreComment and Analysis: Author and ODA Subjects that own JSCs by the Country and Region where the shareholder is registered  (06/2014) Data Source: National Registration CentreComment…

Albanian Joint Stock Companies that have distributed or reinvested profits 1999 – June 2014

Open Data Albania has conducted a research on profits of corporates operating in the country and on the policies of distribution or reinvesting of their profits. The survey estimates the number of companies and the value of the share capital. Indicators are based on data obtained from historical extracts of JSC-s as presented in the National Registration Center NRC, June 2014. Financing from “internal sources”…