The Partners for Transparency Initiative (PFT) announced the start of its monitoring of electoral financing and spending in a number of electoral districts, and the initiative bears the slogan "Our Voices Against Your Money".
The initiative is the first of its kind in Egypt, which seeks, through the “Our Voices Against Your Money” initiative, to contribute to the achievement of the integrity of the upcoming House of Representatives elections by opposing the phenomenon of using money to influence the will of the electorate, in addition to developing effective “approaches” and tools that can be used extensively. After strengthening the role of civil society organizations in monitoring "electoral financing and spending", and ensuring that candidates and parties adhere to the governing legal frameworks.
The initiative will be implemented in five governorates, namely the governorates of Cairo, Fayoum, Alexandria, Dakahlia and Port Said. The governorates and districts within each governorate have been selected to give a good indication of the nature of financing and financial spending throughout the electoral process, as well as to facilitate the process of disseminating the results, recommendations and tools that will emerge. By the initiative.
Walaa Jad Al-Karim, Director of Partners for Transparency PFT, affirmed that the issue of "electoral financing and spending" is one of the main issues that determine - along with other issues - the extent of the integrity of the electoral process and the extent to which its final results express the true will of the electorate, and to what extent the "money" was. A factor influencing the course of the political process, and indicates that "partners" are committed in their work to a specific scientific methodology and go beyond the "randomness of follow-up processes". Therefore, the aforementioned "background paper" was presented, stressing that "Partners for Transparency PFT" welcomes any comments or proposals Conducive to "improving the methodology used".