Original scientific paper
Financing the 2009-2010 presidential elections in Croatia: Conflicting interpretations of campaign finance laws
Robert Podolnjak
; Faculty of law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author discusses two fundamental problems relating to the funding of election campaigns in the recent presidential election in Croatia. The first problem derives from the incongruence of two election campaign financing acts in Croatia - the 2004 Act on Financing the Election Campaign for the Election of the President of the Republic of Croatia and the 2007 Act on the Financing of Political Parties, Independent Lists and Candidates. The latter and the more important problem in funding the latest presidential election campaign was that the competent state bodies, authorized to implement the regulations dealing with the funding of the election campaign, were deeply divided on the question which of the two acts is relevant in regulating specific issues. The differences in the way the State Electoral Commission, the Constitutional Court, the State Audit Office and the Ministry of Administration interpreted legal regulations precluded the effective sanctioning of offences in the latest presidential election campaign in Croatia.
Keywords
presidential elections; Croatia; funding of the election campaign
Hrčak ID:
65249
URI
Publication date:
22.2.2011.
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