EU insists on transparency of party campaign financing

As Kosovo is getting ready for the October 22nd local elections, parliamentary elections have once again been returned to the EU Election Observation Mission, KTV reports.

This mission, from the findings of the voting and counting process, has released its final report with finds, and 26 recommendations that have been forwarded to relevant institutions.

The chief of this mission, Alojz Peterle, has stressed the need for transparency of political parties' finances and financing of their campaigns, but also transparency with crimes related to the 2014 elections. Peterle has called for increased transparency in the WNR, where there was recounting of votes by 20 %s more than in the preliminary elections, until the report has criticised the independent Commission for Media's passive role during these elections.

The large number of invalid votes, leaders of this mission, have also linked it to the lack of educational campaigns.

However, the CEC, the cause of procurement procedures, may also be mired in the campaign for local elections. The OSHP, on August 8th, had cancelled the CEC's selection of economic operator for activity “Public information on local elections 2017”, and while still in the operator's selection procedures, Valdete Daka has told KTV that they are doing information in alternative forms.