During the 2024 presidential election, the National Audit Office has overseen compliance with the candidates’ obligation to disclose their election campaign funding and election campaign expenses as laid down in the law. All disclosers filed election funding disclosures.
In the 2024 presidential election, voluntary advance disclosures had to be filed no later than the day preceding the election day. The advance disclosure contains the plan for election campaign funding and expenses and it is based on an assessment produced at the time of the disclosure. Seven of the ten candidates filed the advance disclosure by the deadline.
All ten disclosers of the 2024 presidential election filed the election funding disclosures referred to in the law. Under the Act on a Candidate’s Election Funding (273/2009), the discloser is always responsible for the accuracy of the election funding disclosure.
The National Audit Office examined the contents of the election funding disclosures when receiving the disclosures and on the basis of the additional information provided by the disclosers. The National Audit Office requested all disclosers to provide campaign bank statements and accounting information as additional information to verify that the information contained in the election funding disclosures is correct.
Nine of the disclosures were supplemented or edited after the initial filing.
After examining the disclosures, and the filing of the additional details and supplementary information by the disclosers, the National Audit Office is not aware of any matters on the basis of which it would have any reason to doubt the accuracy of the disclosures.
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Pontus Londen
Principal Financial Auditor
Monitoring and Oversight