All those required to file an election funding disclosure, i.e. political parties nominating a candidate, filed an election the disclosure as prescribed in the Act on a Candidate’s Election Funding and by the deadline. The report discusses the functioning of the Act on a Candidate’s Election Funding in general.
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All those required to file an election funding disclosure in the 2012 presidential elections, i.e. political parties nominating a candidate, filed an election funding disclosure as prescribed in the Act on a Candidate’s Election Funding. All election funding disclosures were filed by the deadline.
In the course of handling and checking disclosures, the National Audit Offi ce asked five parties to provide additional information or correct a disclosure. Corrections concerned details related to the itemisation of funding.
The National Audit Office asked all the parties for accounts regarding the correctness of disclosures. The objective was to verify the information provided in disclosures. Parties and party associations were asked to provide accounting information related to the presidential campaign. Requests were not based on suspicions concerning the correctness of disclosures. According to section 24:15 of the Act on the Openness of Government Activities (621/1999) accounts received in this way must be kept secret.
The National Audit Office did not receive complaints concerning election funding disclosures in the 2012 presidential elections.
The report discusses the functioning of the Act on a Candidate’s Election Funding in general.
On the basis of the handling of disclosures or the accounts and additional information that were received, the National Audit Offi ce did not become aware of any matters on account of which the office had cause to doubt the correctness of the disclosures it received.
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