The parties spent 37.5 million euros in elections … – euronews

The parties spent 37.5 million euros in elections … – euronews

Reuters, 05/01 17:18 CET

President of the Court of Auditors, Ramón Álvarez Miranda, during his appearance at the Joint Congressional Committee. EFE / File

Madrid, Jan. 5 ( EFE ) .- The Court of Auditors has approved the audit report on the European elections, in which political parties declared costs amounting to 37.5 million euros, 17.4 of them for sending electoral propaganda.

According to the Court, the PP was the party that justified costs A total of 11.3 million euros, followed by the PSOE , with 11.1 million and Plural Left, with 5.8 million euros.

We can declared costs amounting to 134,196 euros, but ineligible, not correspond to delivering electoral propaganda, because it did not use them.

None of the ten parties or coalitions that justified their expenses exceeded limits laid down in the electoral law and the Court has not asked to reduce the subsidy they deserve by law.

The parties declared resources totaling 36.7 million euros, leading from bank loans (22.2 million), electoral advances the state (9.4 million) and contributions from the parties themselves (4.9 million).

According to the report, the financing of election expenses from natural or legal persons was 0.1 million.

Of the 37.5 million euros of expenditure declared by the parties, 20.1 are ordinary electoral operations and ineligible items, and the remaining 17.4 to eligible shipments.

All matches a specific bank account opened for elections, although in cases of Coalition for Europe, PP, PSOE and can there income or expense payments through accounts of ordinary activity. For Plural Left and Peoples Decide include late payments, although amounts irrelevant.

Nine suppliers breached the obligation to forward details of the invoiced amount, a total of 184,885 euros

The following table shows, for parties or coalitions and euros, justified expenses from ordinary operations and justified expenditure eligible for election shipments for European elections in May 2014:

Parties expenditure

Regular Eligible

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Citizens 386,242.13 314,685.57

Coalition for Europe 2,331,463.84 1,262,160.83

The Plural Left 1,939,900.08 3,864,359.24

L’Esquerra pel Dret a Decide 647,488.62 604,947.11

The People Decide 532,103.85 412,773.30

PP 7,314,241.80 4,014,346.24

PSOE 5,674,518.19 5,398,836.24

We can 134,196.43 –

European Spring 309,081.03 308,465.24

UPyD 816,212.02 1,189,341.94.

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