TI Says Hungarian Parliamentary Parties Overspent During Campaign
- 29 Apr 2014 9:00 AM
Calculations by civil organisations show that the parties that got into parliament have spent a total of 3.5 billion forints (EUR 11.4m) more during the election campaign then allowed by law, legal director at Transparency International Hungary Miklós Ligeti said on Monday.
Ligeti told a conference that green opposition LMP was the only party that did not exceed the legal campaign spending limit.
TI Hungary József Péter Martin said Hungary is at 47th place in world and 20th place in the 28-member European Union based on its “corruption performance” and a recent EU anticorruption report showed that 89% of Hungarians believe corruption is a very big problem in the country as against the EU average of 76%.
One of the main reasons behind this is campaign financing, which has been an unresolved issue for the past twenty years, with parties using funds in an uncontrollable way.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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