The Court of Accounts proposes to cut the electoral subsidies to Junts in almost 180,000 euros | Spain
After analyzing the accounts of the parties that attended the last general elections, in July 2023, the Court of Accounts has proposed to the Ministry of Interior to cut the subsidies granted for those elections to six parties, for observing irregularities or deficiencies in its economic justification. Of these formations, it stands out for the amount Junts, with a reduction of 178,508.41 euros. The amount is equivalent to 10% of the sum that Carles Puigdemont’s party paid its suppliers after the 90 -day period of rigor, a delay that sanctions the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (Loreg).
These proposals for subsidies are directed to Interior about those political parties that have incurred certain breaches of the electoral regulations and the criteria of the supervisory body. The requirement to pay before 90 days derives article 125.3 of the LOREG, which stipulates that « the election campaign is finished, you can only have the balances of these accounts to pay, in the ninety days following that of the vote, previously contracted electoral expenses. »
The court also raises In your report that interior cuts the subsidies granted for that 2023 and for the same reason as to the union of the Navarrese people (for an amount of 11,261.46 euros) and add (7,418.86). The next on the list is the PSOE (7,139.98), but in this case the Court shaves to have allocated unauthorized expenses to hire advertising spaces on private televisions (as article 60 of the LOREG sanctions) for an amount of 3,499.74 euros. The request for trimming amounts to twice that amount, to which it adds another 140.50 euros, a specific cut for having paid the deadline.
A VOX, the court recommends to reduce the subsidy at 3,915.70 euros. Of these, 1,414 for using resources whose origin violates the prohibition established in article 128 of the LOREG (money cannot be received from any agency or entity of the public sector, nor from companies that provide services to the administration, nor from foreign entities) and the rest to pay suppliers late. Finally, for the PSC it is agreed to ask for a cut of only 54.85, for moving from the deadline and also for making any payment from bank accounts not specific to the elections.
For the call of July 2023, the Court of Accounts has analyzed the numbers of 16 formations, which received 56.8 million euros and spent 58.1 on those elections. No formation exceeded the maximum limits of expenses, and they all had, as appropriate, from a specific electoral account. In addition to the six exceeded the legal deadline to pay their suppliers, six also had an excess billing in envelopes and ballots with respect to justified shipments.
The body controls the accounts to analyze compliance with the regulations on income and electoral expenses, and also to examine regularity of the electoral accounting presented by the political formations. All of them, the Court stands out, their accounts books referred within.
