NewsWhore
11-23-2007, 03:10 PM
The country's political parties will receive RD$1.1 billion during the last two months of presidential campaigning in the run-up to the 16 May 2008 elections, as reported in Diario Libre. The Central Electoral Board (JCE) will distribute the money. Article 49 of electoral law 275-97 rules that the political parties will receive the equivalent of a half a percent of all national revenue in the given electoral year and a fourth of a percent in the years when there aren't any elections. At the end of this year the JCE will have given the political parties RD$296 million, although most of this money is divided between the three main parties, the PRD, PLD and PRSC, who get 80% of these funds. This means that the political parties receive RD$6,596,432.93 per month. The funding has turned political parties into the nation's leading spenders on advertising, after the government itself.
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