SP – 2011 Electoral Funds and Expenses

The Socialist Party of Albania (SP) is one of the parliamentary political parties competing in the 2011 Local Government Elections. SP 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 and also in the electoral subject-s own funds.

During the 2011 electoral campaign, SP has spent 136,498,265 Leks. Total collected funds amount to 108,916,106 Leks, and the balance sheet for the 2011 electoral campaign records an excess of expenses equal to 27,582,159 Leks or 20.2 % of the total expenses. In other words, we can say that the SP has closed the 2011 electoral campaign in the red.

Electoral Funds and Expenses, 2011 Electoral Campaign.
<sup>Leks

Source: The Report of the Independent Auditor on the SP?s Collected and Spent Funds in the Local Government Election Campaign, (8 May 2011).
Comments and Analysis: ODA</sup>

The Structure of funds benefited by the Socialist Party for the electoral campaign is fairly wide. Thus, the SP has collected for its electoral campaign a total amount of 108,916,106 Leks. Out of the total, the subject’s revenues from Public Funding in conformity with Article 87 of the Electoral Code amount to 30,547,726 Leks. In addition, the SP has collected 3,900,000 through private donations. The party has drawn on its own funds for covering the electoral campaign expenditures to a considerable extent, for a total amount of 74,468,380 Leks.

Electoral Funds, 8 April 2011 – 8 May 2011 Electoral Campaign



^{Source: The Report of the Independent Auditor on the SP?s Collected and
Spent Funds in the Local Government Election Campaign, (8 May 2011).
Comments and Analysis: ODA}

^{Source: The Report of the Independent Auditor on the SP?s Collected and Spent Funds in the Local Government Election Campaign, (8 May 2011).
Comments and Analysis: ODA}

It is interesting to notice that all donations benefited by the SP in the 2011 electoral campaign were coming from donors with contributions higher than 100,000 Leks.

Structure of SP Donations, 2011 Electoral Campaign

^{Source: The Report of the Independent Auditor on the SP?s Collected
and Spent Funds in the Local Government Election Campaign, (8 May
2011).
Comments and Analysis: ODA}

The list of SP donors includes 12 subjects in total, all of them individuals and mainly MPs of this political force.

^{Source: The Report of the Independent Auditor on the SP?s Collected and Spent Funds in the Local Government Election Campaign, (8 May 2011).
Comments and Analysis: ODA}

List of SP donors ? 2011 Electoral Campaign

Source: The Report of the Independent Auditor on the SP?s Collected and Spent Funds in the Local Government Election Campaign, (8 May 2011).
Comments and Analysis: ODA