Political party funding in Kosovo
No independent auditing and clientelist connections.
|2017.06.02
|
For the past four years, Kosovo’s political parties have not been independently audited, with two general elections having been held in that time.
Donors to PDK, a party which led the Kosovo Government for seven years, are at the top of the list of beneficiaries of public tenders.
Political parties are required by law to compile a special list of all donors that offer products and services to public institutions, but according to auditing reports, parties regularly do not fulfil this requirement.
By not selecting auditors to perform an independent assessment, the Kosovo Assembly is considered to have breached its legal requirements.
Arton Demhasaj
Arton Demhasaj is the Executive Director of non-governmental organization “Cohu!”, one of the most renowned public policy think tanks in Kosovo. He has two bachelor degrees in political and judicial sciences from the University of Prishtina.
DISCLAIMERThe views of the writer do not necessarily reflect the views of Kosovo 2.0.
This story was originally written in Albanian.