Dr. Walaa Gad Al-Karim, director of Partners for Transparency, revealed that the organization will participate in monitoring the parliamentary elections, through an initiative for the first time that takes place in Egypt, which is "monitoring electoral spending".
He added to Al-Bawaba that the institution will monitor financial spending on elections in 4 governorates (Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said and Fayoum), stressing that no Egyptian civil society institutions have participated in monitoring financial spending, and that the initiative depends on the integration of financial analysts. With observers, to monitor and analyze electoral spending.
The organization relies on 20 people, mainly between an observer and a financial analyst, in addition to a number of field monitors that can reach up to 40, whose role is to collect information and not analyze it.
The Director of Partners for Transparency added that although the law of candidacy for the House of Representatives elections prohibits candidates from receiving donations from certain parties, and setting a maximum spending, the Committee for Elections does not have a mechanism to monitor the financial part during the election period.
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