Parliamentary Parties – 2009 Electoral Funds

The parliamentary parties are highly important subjects in the context of the Electoral Funds and Expenses. As such they benefit from public funds, and at the same time they can draw on the funds collected over the years. Parliamentary parties are considered the ones that, in the previous parliamentary elections, have won and hold at least one MP seat in the Assembly.

In the 2009 Parliamentary Elections, parliamentary parties are DP, SP, SMI, PJIU, RP, SDP, AEP, DA, HRUP, DCP, SDY, and LDU. The weight carried by these political parties in terms of electoral funds is considerable, for in the 2009 electoral campaign they held 91.2% of the total funds.

^{Source: Auditor’s Reports, Political Parties, 2009 Electoral Campaign.
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Elaboration and Analysis: ODA}

Parliamentary parties have officially declared they collected 306,482,048 (three hundred six million four hundred eighty-two thousand forty-eight) Leks in total as funds for the electoral campaign. This considerable amount consists of various types of funds, and we may distinguish four main categories on the basis of the funds’ source:

2009 total electoral funds, sorted out in 4 main categories, parliamentary parties
^{Source: Auditor’s Reports, Political Parties, 2009 Electoral Campaign.
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Elaboration and Analysis: ODA}

According to the subjects’ own reports, in the 2009 electoral campaign, the parliamentary parties have benefited from the state budget a total amount of 64,077,264 (sixty-four million seventy-seven thousand two hundred sixty-four) Leks. This makes up 21% of the total campaign funds. The public funds? allocation rules are set forth in Article 87 of the Electoral Code.

The subjects’ revenues from physical persons and legal entities, or the donations (Article 89 of the Electoral Code) are a highly important item of the political parties’ financial sheets. As shown by the graphic presentation, they make up 29% of the total funds, amounting to 90,347,316 Leks.

However, the main financing source, covering most of the campaign expenses, consists in the subjects? own funds. They make up 48% of the total funds, amounting to 147,384,395 183,310,774 (one hundred forty-seven million three hundred eighty-four thousand three hundred ninety-five) Leks.

As indicated by the data, the Demo-Christian Party in its financial sheets has declared 0 Leks funding received from the state budget. However, this political party is entitled to automatically benefiting public funding from the state budget, in view of it being a parliamentary party. It is unclear whether this is a case of the electoral subject’s failure to report any collected funds, or whether in utter violation of the law this political party has received zero funding from the Public Funds. In either case, a serious violation of the law has occurred in this case.

The last category of funds, which is seen in one electoral subject only, consists in the specific case in which the cost for making the free airtime available to the electoral subjects by private radio/televisions is calculated as a deductible expense for taxation purposes (Article 84, point 6 of the Electoral Code). In the 2009 elections, the revenues on the basis of this legal provision amount to 2% of the total campaign funds, for a total worth of 4,673,073 (four million six hundred seventy-three thousand seventy-three) Leks, they belong to the Socialist Movement for Integration.

Comments and Analysis: Open Data Albania
Contributed by: R.E

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