CGO: Parties spent more than three million euros on election campaigns

"The most expensive mandate was held by the list of the Albanian Forum, which spent EUR 69.828,7 per mandate, and the cheapest was the Bosniak Party with EUR 10.371,4 per mandate," added the announcement of the CGE.

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CGO, Photo: CGO
CGO, Photo: CGO
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The Center for Civic Education (CGO) announced on the social network Iks (X) that, according to reports on campaign expenses for the parliamentary elections in June, which were submitted by electoral lists, at least 3.029.988,99 euros were spent for these purposes by direct actors.

"The reports were published on the website of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) Montenegro. 14 out of 15 election lists submitted reports to ASK, and only the Yes list did not do that. We can do it for civil Montenegro, the costs of which are not yet available ", it was announced from CGO.

Out of 15 lists, 9 distributed 81 parliamentary mandates, as they said, and this cost them 2.648.120,85 euros, as they reported to the KAS, and on average, 32.692,85 euros were spent per mandate won.

"The most expensive mandate was the list of the Albanian Forum, which spent 69.828,7 euros per mandate, and the list of the Albanian Alliance spent 57.511,6 euros for one mandate. Slightly less was spent by the list of Democrats and URA, whose mandate cost an average of 49.147,1 The Croatian Citizens' Initiative (HGI) is in fourth place, with 1 elected mandate that cost 42.657 euros, while in fifth place the list is gathered around DPS, whose mandate cost an average of 42.181,9 euros," according to the CGO.

The three lists with the lowest average expenses are, the CGO statement adds, the list for the future of Montenegro with 36.590,8 euros per mandate won, the Movement Europe Now with 16.192,5 euros per mandate and the Bosniak Party with 10.371,4 euros per mandate.

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