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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSome of the data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- In ten years, 2012-2021, Political Parties have benefited from public funding in the amount of 2.174 billion ALL<\/strong>.<\/li>
- ALL 1.784 billion<\/strong> are allocated to the regular annual activity of political parties, while ALL 390 million<\/strong> have been allocated to electoral campaigns (General Election 2013, Local Election 2015, General Election 2017, Local Election 2019, and General Election 2021).<\/li>
- Budget expenditures as support for Political Parties for their Election Campaigns have been in the amount of 65 million ALL until 2021, while this year these transfers have doubled to 130 million ALL<\/strong>.<\/li>
- Public financing for electoral campaigns for Political Parties accounted for about 20-27% of the total public financing for parties during the years 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019, while in 2021 it accounted for almost half or 47%.<\/li>
- On average, in an electoral year, 265 million ALL<\/strong> were transferred from the State Budget as support for political parties, while in non-electoral years, 170 million ALL<\/strong> or 36% less were allocated to the parties.<\/li>
- Treasury<\/a> data show that over the years the Socialist Party is the one that has benefited from the highest value of transfers from the State Budget. The years 2012 and 2014, on the other hand, are the years when it was the Democratic Party the one that has benefited the most from public funds.<\/li>
- In total, there are 50 political parties that have managed to absorb funding from the State Budget in the years 2012-2021. In 2022, even Nisma Thurje Party managed to get funds from the state budget, bringing the number of political parties benefiting from transfers from the state treasury<\/a> to 51 parties.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Open Data Albania, the database owned by AIS<\/a>, has disclosed year after year data on the funding and costs of election campaigns and political parties. You can read a group of articles in the Electoral Expenses<\/a> section or in the Electoral Processes section.<\/a> Being committed to contributing to transparency and improvement of electoral situations, AIS has developed methodologies and projects for Election Citizen Monitoring. The organization is already working on raising funds<\/a> for such methodologies and projects to be implemented in the upcoming 2025 parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AIS has just published an article on the Open Data Albania page showing the Public Money Value that Political Parties have received in 10 years. 2011 – 2022. The data provided in the article disclose public funding from taxpayers’ money distributed to (51) Beneficiary Parties1), by Year abd by type of funding, i.e. annual or electoral funding, etc. The reference used for each data is… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/ndiqparate.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Capture.jpg?fit=743%2C548&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21936,"url":"https:\/\/ndiqparate.al\/?p=21936&lang=en","url_meta":{"origin":19512,"position":0},"title":"Mis-Use of Public Funds during Election Period: Civil Society Call for Amendments to Electoral Legislation ahead of 2025 Elections","date":"July 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Three civil society organizations engaged in issues of transparency, accountability and democratic culture have recently addressed a letter to the Parliamentary Committee for Legal Affairs and the Group of Dialogue. 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- ALL 1.784 billion<\/strong> are allocated to the regular annual activity of political parties, while ALL 390 million<\/strong> have been allocated to electoral campaigns (General Election 2013, Local Election 2015, General Election 2017, Local Election 2019, and General Election 2021).<\/li>