It would be better, no doubt, have no need to force the political parties, especially those on the right since it is they who are unwilling to do the most, the transparency of their funding and that of their election campaigns ... Encourage them by example? That is what the PS City has done on Friday by posting his campaign budget, other parties can not decently well, at election time, shirk (although some have still found a few tricks to underestimate their expenses, and that others have flatly said anything it is true that those we have used). The same evening, the Grand Council passed a law on financing political parties, but a law that does not leveled their election expenses, and thus leaves to the invisible hand of a "free market policy" which, logically, transforming democracy merchandise. And a law which, incidentally, we never change, the right has managed to slip a new gift tax, the sponsors of his own party this time.
War of nerves around the sinews of war
By publishing its election budget, funded exclusively by contributions of its members and its elected officials, the SP City urged other parties, and forced some of them to do so. The figures given by each other, however, must be taken with extreme caution if they set the Greens and the left are perfectly credible, as the financing of these two formations based on the same basis as that of the PS City (the contributions of elected officials and members), and that neither the one nor the other are small or large gifts from sponsors interested in a return on investment, this is not the case for parties Agreement, nor, even less, of the UDC Pinocchios and CWM-two formations differing in their responses to the press, by a remarkable skill in the spreading of smoke .. In addition, for municipal elections, several parties merge their cantonal and municipal budgets, some (UDC the Liberals) did not even have the section of the City of Geneva it is true that they abhor the City to the point that the existence in their own structures must seem obscene. In short, when the Tribune de Geneve reported that "the conquest City of Geneva "will cost $ 1 million and a half to throw parties in it, it is probably far off. The PS has announced its budget: CHF 350'000 for the campaign of the two municipal elections, the City Council and Administrative Council campaigns financed by the previous municipal election results, since by the contributions of elected officials (those members fund the functioning of the party, outside election campaigns). Greens announce half, set to left four times less. And the liberal-radical pretends to be surprised, "the PS is as rich as we "... before admitting that in fact it is much richer, since in the 350,000 francs he confessed to his campaign budget to the City Council added at least 80,000 francs and 30,000 francs Subject to the Administrative Council ... But the most exemplary case is the PDC of the City, and its candidate for the Administrative Council, sponsored by the community estate. Michael Chevrolet received "personally" donations for at least (this is just the number he admits) 120,000 francs, in addition to the budget of the party providing it. The candidate of the Geneva Chamber estate ensure that a beautiful settings estate provided only half of his little mattress election "personal", which is already considerable, and that "these restraints do not affect (his) campaign," nobody, not even he, no one believes. And CVP, which is the smallest party in the City Council, who has the fewest voters, and finds himself with the biggest electoral budget (450,000 francs, at least) behind the Liberal-fused radicals, and ahead of the first party of the City, the PS ... It is true, and healthy, that election results do not totally depend financial resources involved in election campaigns, and are still in large part the result of commitments activists: four years ago, to port has spent less than 30,000 francs to elect Rémy Pagani Administrative Council. But it is also true that the commodification of politics leads to totally distort the democratic debate-why the right is stubbornly refusing to cap election spending, and if she agrees (except the SVP, which relies on sponsors) to receive public money, it is not to waive the windfall privately it benefits, any more than its sponsors hear renounce political return on investment they expect. Chevrolet is not financed by any media property. A committed board, it is paid. And it pays off.
War of nerves around the sinews of war
By publishing its election budget, funded exclusively by contributions of its members and its elected officials, the SP City urged other parties, and forced some of them to do so. The figures given by each other, however, must be taken with extreme caution if they set the Greens and the left are perfectly credible, as the financing of these two formations based on the same basis as that of the PS City (the contributions of elected officials and members), and that neither the one nor the other are small or large gifts from sponsors interested in a return on investment, this is not the case for parties Agreement, nor, even less, of the UDC Pinocchios and CWM-two formations differing in their responses to the press, by a remarkable skill in the spreading of smoke .. In addition, for municipal elections, several parties merge their cantonal and municipal budgets, some (UDC the Liberals) did not even have the section of the City of Geneva it is true that they abhor the City to the point that the existence in their own structures must seem obscene. In short, when the Tribune de Geneve reported that "the conquest City of Geneva "will cost $ 1 million and a half to throw parties in it, it is probably far off. The PS has announced its budget: CHF 350'000 for the campaign of the two municipal elections, the City Council and Administrative Council campaigns financed by the previous municipal election results, since by the contributions of elected officials (those members fund the functioning of the party, outside election campaigns). Greens announce half, set to left four times less. And the liberal-radical pretends to be surprised, "the PS is as rich as we "... before admitting that in fact it is much richer, since in the 350,000 francs he confessed to his campaign budget to the City Council added at least 80,000 francs and 30,000 francs Subject to the Administrative Council ... But the most exemplary case is the PDC of the City, and its candidate for the Administrative Council, sponsored by the community estate. Michael Chevrolet received "personally" donations for at least (this is just the number he admits) 120,000 francs, in addition to the budget of the party providing it. The candidate of the Geneva Chamber estate ensure that a beautiful settings estate provided only half of his little mattress election "personal", which is already considerable, and that "these restraints do not affect (his) campaign," nobody, not even he, no one believes. And CVP, which is the smallest party in the City Council, who has the fewest voters, and finds himself with the biggest electoral budget (450,000 francs, at least) behind the Liberal-fused radicals, and ahead of the first party of the City, the PS ... It is true, and healthy, that election results do not totally depend financial resources involved in election campaigns, and are still in large part the result of commitments activists: four years ago, to port has spent less than 30,000 francs to elect Rémy Pagani Administrative Council. But it is also true that the commodification of politics leads to totally distort the democratic debate-why the right is stubbornly refusing to cap election spending, and if she agrees (except the SVP, which relies on sponsors) to receive public money, it is not to waive the windfall privately it benefits, any more than its sponsors hear renounce political return on investment they expect. Chevrolet is not financed by any media property. A committed board, it is paid. And it pays off.
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