are big differences between the budget that they will have parties to campaign for the federal elections of 2011: just think of the UDC, the richest party, will have a sum ten times greater than that of PS.
According to accounts drawn up by leading experts in the topic, the fact the coffers democentristi have at least 15 million francs, as much as in 2007, but there are many to think that the figure on which the party maintains total secrecy, it could be 30 to 50% higher.
other end of the historical formations, we find one that has less money, or the PS, with its 1.5 million. In between PLR and PPD: the liberal-radical, as publicly announced, will have more or less 2.6 million (About seven times less UDC), while the popular-democratic, has revealed yesterday the president Christophe Darbellay, will spend up to 3 million (five times less than the democentristi). Only a few hundred thousand francs, finally, Democratic Party, still represented in the government with Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, and Verdi.
"Funding style banana republic"
Meanwhile, with the approach of the elections, the controversy reappeared on the system of party funding: Many will denounce the total lack of transparency, as the political, who receive their funds through contributions and gifts should not declare the source. "It's a situation banana republic," said the expert ATS Louis Perron, noting that such a mechanism is found only in Latin America and Asia.
addition to a "penalty of the left", since "economic environments mainly finance center and right, the main consequence of this situation is the risk that the operations of Swiss political parties is not addressed to the common good but is in fact manipulated by powerful interest groups that finance them, as they have denounced Transparency International and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).