Disclosure of Election Financing
The Act on the Disclosure of Election Financing (414/2000) entered into force on 15 May 2000. It provides an obligation for
- parties which have nominated candidates in Presidential elections or representatives of constituency associations or their substitutes
to submit a notification of the financing of their election campaign (election financing).
The notification must be submitted to the Ministry of Justice within two months of the confirmation of the election results. In the Presidential Elections 2006 the notification should be submitted by 1 April 2006. The notification is public.
The notification shall include at least the following information:
1) elections in question,
2) the full name of the candidate and the name of the nominating party. If the candidate has been nominated by a constituency association this shall be mentioned,
3) total costs of the election campaign of the candidate, and
4) costs of the election campaign of the candidate itemised as follows:
a) the candidate’s own funds
b) contributions received by the candidate, his/her support group and other associations established in his/her support from outside classified in terms of contributions from
- private persons
- enterprises
- party organisations
- other corresponding important donors.
In presidential elections the value of each contribution and the name of the donor must be stated separately, if the value is at least 3400 EUR. The name of the private donor may not be given without his/her express consent, if the contribution is smaller than the above amount.
