Biggest opposition ticket spends under a million Euro on campaign

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The United for Serbia’s Victory list of candidates, headed by Marinika Tepic, spent approximately 960,000 Euro on the parliamentary election campaign, three times less than the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

According to the Anti-Corruption Agency report on campaign expenses, the United for Serbia’s Victory ticket, comprising parties and movements assembled around the Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP), Democratic Party (DS) and People’s Party (NS), had total expenses amounting to approximately 960,000 Euro. This list of candidates won more seats in the parliament than the other opposition parties.

A breakdown of election campaign expenditures shows that advertising was the biggest item, that this ticket spent about 270,000 Euro on it, of which 253,000 Euro was spent on advertising on television stations.

Most of the funding came from the state budget. The report reads that the United for Serbia’s Victory ticket received some 913,000 Euro from public sources, and approximately 841,000 (1 Euro – 118 Dinar) in contributions by individuals.

The ticket’s total election campaign revenues were 108,613,895 Dinar which means that its expenses were not covered in full, said the Agency on its website.