How to Improve Transparency and Control of Campaign Financing
How to Improve Transparency and Control of Campaign Financing

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Electoral systems, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption
Published by: prEUnup Coalition
Keywords: prEUgovor; Law on Financing of Political Activities; Ministry of Finance; Anti-Corruption Agency; National Anti-Corruption Strategy
Summary/Abstract: Draft of the new Law on Financing of Political Activities which was published on November 25, 2021, is, in fact, the existing Law on which interventions were carried out in a more significant number of articles, which is why it is formally marked as new. Some of the changes made now come from an earlier draft of this Law (from 2016), which was then being worked on by the Ministry of Finance and the Anti-Corruption Agency, and which is no longer available online. The Working Group of the Government of Serbia for Cooperation with the OSCE / ODIHR made a significant number of changes, hidden from the public eye. As it is publicly known, the Working Group sent the draft amendments to the LFPA to the ODIHR in June 2021 but did not publish it or submit it to interested civil society organizations, from which it had previously (in February 2021) requested an opinion on how the ODIHR recommendations should be implemented. As a result, precious half a year was lost, during which the public was able to discuss these proposals. Some of the changes are a consequence of recent agreements from inter-party dialogues, which we commented on in the last prEUgovor Alarm report. Finally, some changes are related to parts of the Action Plan for Chapter 23, which existed in almost the same form in the Action Plan for the implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy from 2013 but have not been implemented in the past eight years.

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