The financial report is rejected when the funds obtained, accepted or spent in violation of the regulations exceed 1% of the total amount of the electoral commission’s revenues. In the case of PiS, this amount is PLN 387,000. zloty.
The Law and Justice campaign cost this group approximately PLN 38 million. The decision of the National Electoral Commission means that PiS will receive PLN 10.8 million less, which is three times the amount in question. In addition, the amount of PLN 3.6 million is confiscated from the state treasury, which means that in the absence of voluntary payment, this amount will be collected by the tax office.
National Electoral Commission: lower subsidy for Jarosław Kaczyński’s party
The consequence of the rejection of the electoral commission’s financial report is also a reduction in subsidies. Their amount is determined based on the number of valid votes cast for candidates running on PiS lists. Taking into account the results obtained in the last parliamentary elections, the party could count on almost PLN 26 million per year for the four years until the end of the term. The rejection of the report automatically means that the amount of the annual subsidy will be reduced by PLN 10.8 million, i.e. three times the amount in question.
In total, the National Electoral Commission’s decision will cost PiS PLN 57.6 million over four years. But the National Electoral Commission has already announced that the rejection of the electoral commission’s financial report will result in the need to reject the financial report on the expenditure of the annual subsidy. This means that the party will lose the subsidy in its entirety for a period of three years, which will mean depriving PiS of PLN 77 million during this period. A resolution on this issue is expected to be adopted within about a month.
