site.btaTwenty Parties Failed to Submit Financial Statements for 2018

April 16 (BTA) - Twenty parties have failed to submit
their financial statements for 2018, the National Audit Office
said on Tuesday. A total of 128 parties have submitted both
their financial statements and the lists of their donors as
required.

Eight of the 20 political forces who have not filed financial
statements are currently active. These include the Bulgarian
Agrarian Union, VOT-Conservatives, Civil Force, Experts for
Regions Movement, DEOS (Movement for European Unification and
Solidarity), Other Bulgaria, United Bulgaria and Federation of
Active Civil Society.

The other 12 were dissolved in 2018: Alternative Socialist
Movement - Independent, Bulgarian Industrial Agrarian Party,
Voice Civil Movement, Nikola Petkov Popular Agrarian Party,
National Patriotic Union, New Europe, Worthy Bulgaria Movement,
Fatherland Labour Party, Political Movement Together for Sliven,
 Northern League, Union Bulgaria and Chernomorets.

The Audit Office will notify the prosecution magistracy that six
 of the parties which have not submitted financial statements
have not done that for a second year in a row. Those are
Bulgarian Agrarian Union, VOT-Conservatives, Civil Force, Other
Bulgaria, United Bulgaria and Federation of Active Civil
Society.

According to the Political Parties Act, Sofia City Court decrees
 the dissolution of a party which fails to submit financial
statements for two consecutive years and the decision is adopted
 upon a prosecutor's request.

Two parties - Movement for Equal Social Model (DROM) and Union
for Fatherland - submitted their financial statements after the
deadline but complied with the Political Parties Act in terms of
 statement format, content and presentation.

All parties that have not submitted statements, as well as those
 who have done so after the deadline will be fined between 5,000
 and 10,000 leva. G/BR


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