“Our Voices Against Your Money”

          Partners for transparency PFT  Launches its initiative to monitor funding and spending for my election  

Partners: We presented a background paper that includes the conceptual, legal and methodological framework for the monitoring process

Launched Partners for Transparency  PFT“An initiative - the first of its kind in Egypt - to monitor electoral financing and spending in a number of electoral districts, and the initiative bears the slogan.” Our voices are facing your money “

Seeking " Partners for Transparency PFT Through the initiative ” Our voices are facing your money ”, To contribute to achieving the integrity of the upcoming House of Representatives elections by opposing the phenomenon of using money to influence the will of the voters, in addition to developing effective“ approaches ”and tools that can be used extensively later to enhance the role of civil society organizations in monitoring“ electoral financing and spending ”, and ensuring the commitment of Candidates and parties with governing legal frameworks.

The initiative will be implemented in “five Egyptian governorates”, which are the governorates of Cairo, Fayoum, Alexandria, Dakahlia and Port Said. The governorates and districts within each governorate have been selected so as to give a good indication of the nature of the funding, financial spending throughout the electoral process, as well as to facilitate the process of disseminating results and recommendations. And the tools that will bring out the initiative.

And commitment to the principle of transparency, and the involvement of various community parties in discussing the initiative and its details, it was put forward Partners for Transparency  PFT  ” Back paper “It clarifies the intellectual, legal and methodological framework that you will adhere to in the follow-up process. The paper includes Attached with this statementA detailed explanation of the legislative frameworks and the justifications on which the initiative is based, in addition to a presentation of the methodology that will be followed, the axes covered in the monitoring process, and the targeted geographical scope.

Dr. Walaa Jad Al-Karim, Director, says: Partners for Transparency  PFT  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, the extent to which its final results express the true will of the electorate, and the extent to which “money” has been a factor affecting the course of the political process. "Partners" is committed in its work to a specific scientific methodology and goes beyond the "randomness of follow-up processes". Therefore, the aforementioned "background paper" was presented, stressing welcome.  Partners for Transparency PFT ”    With any observations or suggestions that are in favor of “improving the methodology used”.

It is worth noting that Partners for Transparency PFT ”  

 A non-governmental organization, recognized in accordance with the provisions of Egyptian law, that takes into account independence and neutrality “politically” and “ideologically”, and works within the framework of helping society to consolidate and apply the values and practices of integrity, transparency, and accountability, in order to achieve comprehensive “human” development, respect for human rights, and the building of a system Good judgment.

View the background paper :  https://pfort.org/?p=654