Monetary expenditures and services in electoral campaigns

• Author: Sadik Haxhiu - Fejzulla Berisha
• Position: Faculty of Law, 'Kadri Zeka' University-Gjilan
• Pages: 159-167

159

Vol. 3 No. 3

January, 2018

Balkan Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

ISSN 2410-759X

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

Monetary expenditures and services in electoral campaigns

Sadik Haxhiu

Faculty of Law, "Kadri Zeka" University-Gjilan

Fejzulla Berisha

Faculty of Law, "Kadri Zeka" University-Gjilan

Abstract

Monetary expenditures in electoral campaigns are complex, challenging and dynamic. They

are implemented through: spending programs, professional and auxiliary teams as well as

legal protection. Monetary expenditures from decades to decades have changed in quantitative

terms.

Each country has sanctioned legal acts with regards to: campaign nancing, campaign

spending, spending criteria, limited and unlimited campaign spending, limiting campaign

contributions, etc.

Specically, each country regulates illegal campaign expenditures and punitive measures

against the holders of these abuses.

Today in the contemporary world it is challenging to control the expenditure of electoral

campaigns, whether of money or services.

Keywords: electoral campaigns, monetary expenditures, monetary contributions, spending

programs, administrative nes.

Introduction

Electoral campaigns can not even be imagined without a certain cost of nancial

expenses. They are constantly becoming complex and very costly in the nancial and

service sense. In this context, being so costly and complex, they pose diculties for

state bodies that run election management and administration.

This is mainly due to the way in which campaigns are funded and services in

campaigns, because they are oen being made from suspicious nancial resources

and virtual electronic services.

Organizing democratic elections according to the most advanced standards, legal

acts should be sanctioned. These standards include:

- Monetary expenditures and services in electoral campaigns.

- Limited campaign costs.

- Limiting public and private funds and donations, as a tool for controlling

spending on electoral campaigns.

- Monetary expenditures from non-legal sources of funding.

- Illegal campaign expenditures and punitive measures.

Through these principles and standards, monetary spending on electoral campaigns

can be controlled and limited.