Books - Abdul Latif Subuh - Ahmed Arafa
The Partners for Transparency Foundation (PFT) released its first report to assess electoral financing and spending for the constituencies targeted in the first phase of the Egyptian parliamentary elections, which deals with a quantitative analysis of the results of field monitoring carried out by the “Our Voices Against Your Money” initiative team in two electoral constituencies in the governorates of Alexandria and Fayoum, which are Moharram Bey. In Alexandria, which has 36 candidates running for seats, and in the Fayoum district in Fayoum, whose seats 27 candidates are nominated. According to a statement by the Foundation, the report revealed a set of substantial observations related to electoral financing and spending in the two districts of Muharram Bek and the city of Fayoum, the most prominent of which was the following that the candidates in the two constituencies under monitoring are not obligated to record the accounts related to their electoral campaigns in regular records in the manner specified by law Exercising political rights, a violation in which the vast majority of the candidates in the two constituencies fell, which opens the door to questioning the true values of the electoral campaigning expenditures for these candidates. He pointed out that there is an absence of transparency and disclosure of the various aspects of the candidate’s electoral campaign in the Muharram Bey district, which was evident in the majority of candidates ’refusal to disclose the donations they received, or their denial of receiving such donations, as reflected in the two constituencies with regard to the reluctance of the vast majority of candidates from Announcing their bank account number, the real values of their election campaign expenditures, and the sources of financing for voters in their constituencies, and although the Law on Exercising Political Rights includes a clear loophole in that, as it does not lay down regulatory rules in this regard, political harmonization and the rules of integrity and transparency required candidates to adhere to this. . She pointed out that the third observation related to the practice of electoral campaigning at other than its legal timings, and this observation was more prominent in the Muharram Bey district than in the city of Fayoum, where most of the Muharram Bek constituency candidates practiced electoral propaganda at other than its official timings, which is a clear violation of the received organizing rules. In the law on the exercise of political rights. She explained that the fourth note is related to the payment of electoral bribes, which was recorded on a small scale in the Moharram Bek governorate in Alexandria, while no similar cases were recorded in the Fayoum city district, pointing out that no cases were recorded of the use of civil organizations or government facilities in the propaganda process in the two districts in question. While there were limited cases of using places of worship in the Muharram Bek district in Alexandria. She indicated that there is a legal accountant in the candidates' campaigns, as the results of monitoring in the two departments revealed that the vast majority of the candidates do not include legal accountants in their campaigns in the manner specified by the Law on the Exercise of Political Rights, which opens the door to random funding and spending, and the form of financial reporting later. And reduce confidence rates in the reality of revenues and expenditures related to candidates' campaigns.
