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On 4 March, Expert Forum sent comments to the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding the draft GEO drawn up to regulate the merging of the local with the EP elections, but also to improve certain technical aspects related to the organization of EP elections. EFOR requested the organization of a public debate based on Law 52/2003, which took ···
In 2023 there was no significant improvement regarding the transparency of political parties in the spending of public funds, and neither was there more responsibility coming from parties themselves. Their contracts with press entities are just as ambiguous, hence the only known details in the public space can be found in a relatively small number ···
Read the full report (Romanian only). The updated database is available on www.banipartide.ro. The report includes various statistics not found in the summary below, including lists of individuals or companies who contributed to the parties’ finances as well as statistics regarding beneficiaries of contracts from political parties. In order to better understand the Romanian ···
In October 2021, the indices of clientelism in the allocation of reserve funds to the local administration reached the historical maximum of the last 15 years, according to EFOR calculations. In full pandemic and uncertainty, the government broke the country’s security wallet – the Reserve Fund – distributing for no reasonable reason to municipalities and ···
The participation of third parties in political life is not regulated in Romania, the legislation establishing that only candidates and political parties can contribute to electoral campaigns. Third parties are those entities other than electoral competitors that can contribute to the election campaign with the resources to support a candidate or an electoral issue. Third ···
What is PNDL in Romania was the program “Good Roads for Moldova” for the government in Chişinău: discretionary purse in anticipation of the general elections of February 2019. In fact, the micro-targeting was even more sophisticated and perverse than parties are able to do in Romania, but the problem of systemic clientelism – discretionary use ···
Therese Pearce Laanela is the head of elections department at International Idea. She has a long experience in the electoral field for more than 20 years and is a founding staff member of IDEA. She also worked for UNDP or IFES, was Deputy Director for the Democratization Program at the Carter Center, and was involved ···
SceMaps is designed to contribute to the fight against corruption in the EU by delivering impact on multiple levels and providing for long-term sustainability. The project aims at tackling anti-corruption deficiencies in high-risk EU member states (MSs) by developing and implementing an integrated risk assessment tool for estimating state capture and monitoring of anti-corruption policies ···
The clientelism map displays information on transfers made from 2011 to 2016 and coincides with two parliamentary elections 2012 and 2016. The breakdown of transfers is tied to results each party (5 major parties in Georgia) had in majoritarian and party list elections.
Expert Forum and its partners – Watchdog and Expert Grup – have launched a serie of reports on political clientelism in Moldova, Romania and Georgia. Along with the reports we released two interactive maps of political clientelism in Romania and Moldova. The main conclusions Although there are differences in the logic and structure of investment ···
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