Financial statements of parties in Russia is tested on a quarterly basis. Under the new rules, the CEC is attracted to administrative responsibility of the political parties that violated the terms.
MOSCOW, 1 Dec. The CEC of Russia for the first time prepared and sent to the courts, the protocols on bringing to administrative responsibility of political parties that violated the terms of financial reporting, these protocols are currently six, one of them the decision has already been made, said the Chairman of the Central election Commission of the Russian Federation Stanislav Vavilov.
Vavilov recalled that this is done in accordance with the rules, which came into force in November last year. The CEC then spoke with representatives of the parties drew attention to the inadmissibility of violation of terms. Financial reports of parties is checked quarterly.
“We now have to do this — we attract to administrative responsibility of the political parties that violated the terms of financial reporting. To date, six of the Protocol, sent to the courts,” Vavilov said at a briefing on Tuesday.
The Deputy Chairman of the CEC reported that one political party has already decided that she was broken three times. According to him, it is about the party “Smart Russia”. The Vavilov stressed that electoral associations shall be entitled to the prescribed period to file the appeal.
