Report on the oversight of election campaign funding in the 2024 European Parliament elections

In the 2024 European Parliament elections, voluntary advance disclosures were to be filed no later than the day before the election day. An advance disclosure is a plan for election campaign funding and costs, and it is based on an estimate made at the time of filing the disclosure. A voluntary advance disclosure was filed within the prescribed time by 55% of all candidates.

All 29 persons subject to the disclosure obligation in the 2024 European Parliament elections filed the statutory election funding disclosure. Under the Act on a Candidate’s Election Funding, the discloser is always responsible for the accuracy of the election funding disclosure.

The National Audit Office examined the information provided in the election funding disclosures on receipt of the disclosures and later on the basis of additional information received from the disclosers. The National Audit Office requested all the disclosers to submit their campaign bank statements or corresponding reports to help it verify that the information provided in the election funding disclosures was accurate.

A total of 17 disclosures were supplemented or modified after they had been filed.

The largest campaign in the 2024 European Parliament elections was EUR 243,900. The smallest campaign that resulted in the candidate being elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) or as a substitute MEP was EUR 0.

Election funding in the 2024 European Parliament elections totalled around EUR 2.2 million.

After examining the disclosures, the additional information provided by the disclosers and the additions made by them, 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.