What institution(s) has the power to impose non-criminal sanctions for campaign finance infractions?

Togo

Togo

Answer
Audit Agency
Source

Law of June 5, 2013 on the public funding of politicalparties and electoral campaigns / Loi du 5 juin 2013 portant financement publicdes partis politiques et des campagnes ?lectorales

 

Art. 11: The management of public funding of the activities of politicalparties and coalitions, as well as electoral campaigns is subject to thecontrol of the Court of Auditors.

(? La gestion du financement public des activit?sdes partis et regroupements de partis politiques ainsi que des campagnes ?lectoralesest soumise au contr?le de la cour des comptes. ?)

 

Art. 3 (3) : Any political party or coalition, any candidate andany list of candidates who received public funding with respect to electoralcampaigns are required to file a financial report before the Court of Auditors,within three (3) months after the publication of the final election results.

(? Tout parti ou regroupement de partis politiques,tout candidat et toute liste de candidats ayant b?n?fici? de la subvention del’Etat au titre des campagnes ?lectorales, est tenu de d?poser un rapportfinancier aupr?s de la cour des comptes, dans un d?lai de trois (3) mois apr?sla publication des r?sultats d?finitifs des ?lections. ?)

 

Art. 4: The Court of Auditorsshall decide, within three (3) months after the submission, on the financialreports of political parties or coalitions as well as on the regularity ofcampaign expenses of parties or coalitions and candidates.

The deficiencies found by the Court of Auditors may cause a loss of theright to state subsidy for the next election campaign or, for the remainingperiod following that decision, the partial or total repayment of the sumsreceived, or even both sanctions cumulatively.

(? La Cour des comptes se prononce, trois (3) moisapr?s leur d?p?t, sur les rapports financiers des partis ou regroupements departis politiques ainsi que sur la r?gularit? des d?penses de campagne despartis ou regroupements de partis politiques et des candidats.

Les manquements constat?s par la Cour des comptes peuvententra?ner soit la perte du droit ? la subvention de l’Etat pour la prochainecampagne ?lectorale ou pour l’exercice qui suit cette d?cision soit leremboursement partiel ou total des sommes per?ues soit encore les deuxsanctions cumulativement. ?)

 

Link :http://www.afriquinfos.com/articles/2013/6/6/togo-portant-financement-partis-politiques-votee-223467.asp
Comment

 A new law regulatingpolitical party and electoral campaign funding was adopted in Togo on June 5,2013. This law provides for regular control of the electoral campaign expensesof political parties and candidates by the Court of Auditors. However, theCourt of Auditors is a supervisory body and is not authorized to hearcomplaints regarding campaign financing.

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