Political parties spend too much on campaigns – no one can legally control them
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The financing of political parties is a major source of corruption
Parties spent 2,6 million euros on advertising
In Croatia, which is twice as size of Macedonia, parties have spent 3,1 million euros on advertising themselves in the last election campaign Political parties or business groups?
By donating 300 thousand denars, 44-year-old lawyer Arber Isaku decided, with his own financial resources, to contribute to the victory of the Democratic Union for Integration in the snap elections held in April 2014. He stands as one of the 13 contributors to the report of the State Audit Office. In those elections, DUI won 19 MPs and continued to be a partner in the VMRO-DPMNE government. Two years... VMRO-DPMNE one of the richest parties in Europe
SCOOP in April this year published and mapped title deeds of all four main political parties in Macedonia. That article with supporting documents can be found here. VMRO-DPMNE is a leader in Europe according to the square meters it possesses as a political party. It has 93 title deeds for party seats around the country with 33,238 square meters in buildings, agricultural land and pastures. According to the... SCOOP reveals political parties’ property: from fields and pastures to luxury apartments and buildings (update)
DOCUMENTATION Shops, yards, fields, buildings, flats…This is just part of the ownership of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE, which appears as the owner of 100 title deeds where places unknown to the general public can be seen. The biggest properties owned by the party of ex-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski are in Saraj, Kisela Voda and Centar, where VMRO-DPMNE owns buildings, apartments and pastures. Unlike them, SDSM owns far smaller property; the... Business and politics in the media: Are reforms possible?
DOCUMENTATION When in the spring of 1996 the first issue of the independent daily “Dnevnik” was published, the then government was aware that the time was coming of the media that it would not be able to control. “Dnevnik” and then the private TV “A1” soon became influential media, taking the power to create public opinion of the then media that were state-owned – newspapers “Nova Makedonija”,... 