48. Do political parties have to report on their election campaign finances?

'There are no party campaign accounts.' (p. 10)

Source: GRECO (2009) Evaluation Report on France, Transparency of Party Funding (Theme II), Strasbourg, GRECO.

here are no party campaign accounts as such. Parties have to account for, in their annual reports, the gross amount of funds allocated to their candidates and it's up to the candidates endorsed by a given party to declare party funds/ expenses in their campaign accounts.