[open-government] Fwd: Upcoming elections in the EU, Ukraine and Egypt

Fri May 23 14:41:55 UTC 2014

This might be interesting to many on this list too.

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From: Julia Keserű <jkeseru at sunlightfoundation.com>
Date: Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:40 AM
Subject: Upcoming elections in the EU, Ukraine and Egypt
To: Money Politics Transparency <
money-politics-transparency at sunlightfoundation.com>, "
sunlight-international at googlegroups.com" <
sunlight-international at googlegroups.com>,
lobbying-transparency at googlegroups.com

Hey all,

In the next few days, citizens in the EU, Ukraine and Egypt are going to
the polls to elect their new MEPs and presidents.

Sunlight took a look at the transparency of these elections and here is
what we found:

With a completely disjointed process across the EU countries, it it
impossible to find and compare records for political contributions to
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) or their election spending.
Despite its growing powers, the EP has done little in the past to create
more transparency around the elections.

Read more here:http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/05/21/lacks-of-consistency-generates-lack-of-transparency-in-eu-elections/

Egypt’s current political finance regime is cloaked in darkness. In a
country where journalists and protesters are jailed or killed, and basic
freedoms of speech and assembly are threatened daily, political finance
transparency may seem like a low priority. But because opaque election
funding is directly linked to corruption, Egyptian reformers face a
difficult yet important challenge designing an inclusive and representative
process.

Read more here:http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/05/22/secret-financing-in-egyptian-presidential-elections/

And while transparency is far from becoming a reality in Egypt, civil
society in Ukraine might be winning an important battle — though certainly
not the entire war — for more accountable politics as they try to reveal
the size and sources of the funding, as well as the scope of spending in
their presidential elections.

 Read more here:http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/05/23/civil-society-in-ukraine-seizing-the-momentum-for-real-reform/

Best,
Julia

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International Policy Manager

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Washington, DC 20036
(1) 202-742-1520 *246

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