All persons obliged to file election funding disclosures have filed the disclosure and done so within the time period laid down. NAOF checks that all candidates who have been elected or confirmed as alternates file the election-specific disclosures required under the Act on a Candidate’s Election Funding.
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All persons obliged to file election funding disclosures in the 2014 European Parliamentary Elections have filed the election funding disclosures required under the Act on a Candidate’s Election Funding. All election funding disclosures were filed within the period laid down in the Act.
When processing and verifying the disclosures, the National Audit Office asked two disclosers to provide information supplementing or correcting their disclosures. The corrections concerned the provision of more detailed itemisation of the funding information.
The National Audit Office asked all disclosers to provide details of the accuracy of the election funding disclosures. The aim was to verify the information contained in the disclosures. As details the candidates were asked to provide the bank statements of the bank accounts that they had used in their election campaigns The details submitted to the National Audit Office are secret information under section 24, paragraph 15 of the Act on the Openness of Government Activities (621/1999).
The National Audit Office has not received any complaints concerning the election funding disclosures of the 2014 European Parliamentary Elections.
This report provides an overview of the functioning of the Act on a Candidate’s Election Funding.
Based on the processing of the disclosures or the details and the supplementary information that it has received, the National Audit Office is not aware of any such matters on the basis of which it would have reasons to doubt the accuracy of the disclosures that it has received.
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