The ruling Europe Now Movement (PES) recorded a profit in business of 751.456 euros last year, while the largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Socialists, had a loss of around 290.000 euros.
This is shown by the reports on income, assets and expenses for 2023, which the parties submit to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (AKS).
According to the Law on Financing of Political Entities and Election Campaigns, political entities are required to submit the final account and annual consolidated financial report for the previous year to KAS, the State Audit Institution and the Tax Administration by March 31, in printed and electronic form.
Given that the presidential and parliamentary elections were held last year, the parties had a greater influx of money from the state budget for campaign financing, and then continued to receive money for regular work depending on the number of mandates won in the parliament.
Thus, last year PES had a profit of around 750.000 euros, compared to the 2022 loss of 32.535 euros.
According to data from the report on income, assets and expenses for 2023, which was published on the website of ASK, last year PES had more than two million euros in income (2.112.393), which is 17 times more than in 2022, when founded (in June) and did not yet have parliamentary status.
Revenues from the budget in 2023 totaled 1.864.351 euros. Of this, 709,6 thousand euros go to the regular work of the party, 27,8 thousand to the work of the women's organization, 336 thousand to the election campaign for the presidential elections, 790,9 thousand to the parliamentary elections, and 14.452 euros to the work of the parliamentary club.
Last year, as stated in the report, the party of Prime Minister Milojko Spajić received a total of 189.509 euros from the budget of local self-governments for the regular work of the party in seven municipalities - Bar (13.696 euros), Bijelo Polje (18.613 euros), Danilovgrad (16.824), Kolasin (9.610 euros), Pljevlja (26.440), Podgorica (82.949) and Tivat (6.661 euros), as well as 14.717 euros for financing the work of women's organizations.
Income from private sources amounted to 58.493 euros. The party had no income from membership fees because, as PES said earlier, they do not charge it in the first years of work. Income from contributions from legal entities for financing the election campaign was 1.500 euros. Of that, he received 1.000 euros from the Podgorica company Centroslavija, 300 euros from Bar Padrinomont, and 200 euros from Projektsilva from Podgorica. According to data from the Central Register of First-Class Entities (CRPS), the owner of Padrinomont is Radomir Novaković Cakan, Centroslavija Žarko Tomašević, and Projektsilva Dragan Radović.
Income from contributions from natural persons amounted to 56.779 euros. According to the data from the report, Ljubomir Jovanović and Bogdan Petrović donated the maximum allowed 5.000 euros to PES, while the member of the Presidency, Filip Radulović, donated a little less (4.987 euros), while Nikola Burzan paid 4.987 euros. Former member of the Presidency, who was expelled from PES in February, Andrej Milović donated 4.000 euros to the party, and Mirko Duković and Marina Duković each gave the same amount. Members of the Presidency, Filip Ivanović and Vasilije Čarapić, donated 2.992 euros and 600 euros, respectively.
The costs of financing the campaign for the presidential elections amounted to 390.202, and for the parliamentary elections 672.794.
PES has no movable or immovable assets.
The expenses of PES last year were 1.352.225 euros, of which 411.743 euros are related to the costs of wages and benefits, 13.751 euros for material purchases, 1.842 euros for depreciation...
The income of the DPS is four million, the party also reported the land sold in the report
The largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), reported a loss for 2023 of 289.834 euros. That is still a better business result than in 2022, when the minus of that party was 497.460.
Total revenues 4.123.933, almost one million more than in 2022, while expenses were 4.413.767 euros and are 800 thousand more than the year before.
The contributions of natural persons to DPS for the presidential elections amounted to 200.349 euros, and 3.998 euros for the parliamentary elections.
DPS is one of the few political entities that owns real estate.
According to data from the annual income report, DPS has business premises in Bijelo Polje, Berane, Andrijevica and Danilovgrad.
In the report, a plot of land in Podgorica (Ulica Belgradeska) with an area of 1.119 square meters with an auxiliary building of 84 square meters was entered as property of DPS, although DPS sold it in November last year. As "Vijesti" announced in January, DPS, according to data from the cadastre, sold the land to Eurozoks. A record of the existence of a contract on the regulation of mutual relations between DPS as the seller and Eurozoks as the buyer was recorded in the cadastre.
The report stated that the estimated value of real estate owned by DPS (including the land in Podgorka) is 974.000 euros, and the land in Beogradska ukuka alone is estimated at 903.000 euros.
DPS has 21 vehicles, five fewer than 2022, aged from 1999 to 2018, but not all vehicles have an estimated value. According to the data from the report, the most expensive in the DPS fleet is the Audi A6 from 2018, with an estimated value of 34.814 euros, followed by the Mercedes from 2019, worth around 20 thousand euros.
In income, they reported the sale of four cars last year, for a total of 8,6 thousand euros.
DPS received a total of 2.752.232 euros from the budget. Of this, 1.603.917 euros are for the regular work of the party, 89 for the work of the parliamentary club, 63 for the women's organization, 298.639 for the financing of the presidential elections and 697.342 for the financing of the parliamentary elections.
In 25, the party received 2023 euros from the local self-government budget (out of 756.723 municipalities where DPS has councilors) (712.159 euros for regular work, 41.194 euros for women's organizations and 3.370 for the election campaign).
DPS collected 105.822 euros from membership fees. 854 euros were given by the highest officials, party leader Danijel Živković, then Aleksandar Bogdanović, Predrag Bošković, Nikola Janović, Nikola Rakoćević, Aleksandra Vuković Kuč, Andrija Nikolić, Abaz Dizdarević, Petar Ivanović, Miomir M. Mugoša, Mevludin Nuhodžić...
Former leader Milo Đukanović paid a membership fee of a total of 702 euros, party vice-president Jevto Eraković 630, former official Branimir Gvozdenović 783, president of the Municipality of Šavnik Jugoslav Jakić 739 euros...
Last year, the membership fee of 498 euros was also paid by former Prime Minister Duško Marković, who announced the founding of a new party.
Donations from 51 natural persons to DPS amounted to 9.820 euros. These persons, mostly current and former party and state officials, paid several times in amounts ranging from several euros to several tens of euros. So Danijel Živković paid 32,32 euros each to the party in January, March, April, May, June, July last year, and 4.50 euros each in July and September... Milo Đukanović paid 1 euros each on February 28 and 1,56 last year. 29,59 euros, and he paid that amount to the party in March and April. Duško Marković made two payments of 30,30 euros in February last year, the same amount in April, while in May and June he paid 21,53 euros each, and in July XNUMX euros.
DPS gave 13.300 euros from its own funds to finance the presidential elections.
The contributions of natural persons to the DPS for the presidential elections amounted to 200.349 euros, and for the parliamentary elections 3.998 euros.
BS profit two and a half times higher
Last year, the Bosniak party had a profit of around 142,3 thousand euros, two and a half times more than in 2022.
The total income of the party headed by Ervin Ibrahimović amounted to 900.397 euros, about 400 thousand more than in 2022.
Expenditures were 742.174 euros, of which 134.296 euros related to paid wages, 39.014 euros for renting premises, 62.228 euros for financing the election campaign for the parliamentary elections...
BS received a total of 717.747 euros from the budget, of which 404.022 euros were used for the regular work of the party, 13.841 euros for the work of the parliamentary club, 70.555 euros for women's organizations, and 229.327 euros for financing election campaigns.
Proceeds from the local self-government budget (11 municipalities where BS has councilors) amounted to 144.385 euros.
Last year, BS had an income of about 38 euros from membership fees. On this basis, party leader Ervin Ibrahimović paid 300 euros, member of the Main Board Amer Dacić 387, official Husnija Fetahović 318...
BS has two cars in its possession - a Passat from 2006, valued at EUR 1.667, and a Mercedes Benz from 2017, valued at EUR 38.675.
SD received 307.665 euros from the budget
And the Social Democrats (SD) had a profit in 2023 that amounted to 38.201 euros, about eight thousand more than in 2022.
The total income of that party, whose president is Damir Šehović, was 474.479, about 50 thousand less than in 2022.
SD received 307.665 euros from the budget. Of this, 251.370 euros are for the regular work of the party, 11.751 euros for the work of the parliamentary club, and 44.544 euros for the work of the women's organization. No amount was specified to fund the campaign.
Revenues from the local government budget (21 municipalities in which SD has councilors) amount to around 134 thousand euros.
SD collected 4.698 euros from membership fees last year. Former leader Ivan Brajović paid 793 euros, deputy Boris Mugoša 655, member of the Main Board Đorđe Suhih 431, president of Plav Municipality Nihad Canović 423, president of SD Damir Šehović 302 euros...
The party's expenses amounted to 426.725 euros, of which 262.569 euros relate mostly to wages and benefits.
SD of movable property has four cars with a total estimated value of 26.637 euros.
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