CIVIL – Center for Freedom sent a letter, at the beginning of October, in which it requested from the political parties, in the spirit of the transparency to which they are legally and morally obligated to, to answer several questions in relation to the financing of their campaigns.
Below are the responses of the political party “Levica”, in particular, of their member Zdravko Saveski.
CIVIL: How do you finance the pre-election campaigns?
Saveski: Since Levica is a party that represents the interests of the workers, the poor and the underprivileged, unlike other parties, our election campaigns are not financed by bosses (under the pretense of members and sympathizers, right). The finances for our campaign come from donations from our members and sympathizers, who usually themselves are in a poor financial condition, and also from public financing.
CIVIL: How do you finance the propaganda materials and advertisements?
Saveski: From the money anticipated for the election campaign.
CIVIL: How much money do the gifts for the voters cost (pens, t-shirts, coffee, balloons, etc.)?
Saveski: For principle reasons, we do not give out such gifts to voters.
CIVIL: What are the sources of financing, or who are the donors?
Saveski: I replied previously about the profile of our donors.
These questions are directed to all the participants in the election race, but there have been no answers for many years.
In addition to “Levica”, the questions were also answered by Fiat Canovski’s party, PEI.
“At these elections, our party in general is supporting the candidates proposed by SDSM, therefore we did not have a separate campaign”, replied PEI’s spokesperson Seadin Xhaferi.
In terms of the two financial reports, submitted to the State Election Commission, in the period September 21 to October 14, “Levica” spent a total of 281.114 denars in the election campaign.
Biljana Jordanovska
