President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vetoed and returned for revision bill 5253-1 on the financial statements of political parties.

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" This means that in the event of a prompt reaction of parliamentarians by February 28, 2022, political parties will be required to submit to the NAPK all financial reports that have not been submitted since March 2020, that is, for almost two years..

In the future, reporting will return to its usual course - and subsequent reports of the political force will be submitted on a quarterly basis, "

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Zelensky also proposes to exclude from the text of the bill the proposal to allocate additional funds from the budget to finance parties (previously, the people's deputies proposed to allocate money that parties did not receive in 2019).

In addition, Zelensky proposes to return to the idea that the decision to accept or refuse state funding can be made by both the party congress and the parliamentary faction - by collecting the signatures of the majority of members.. When considering the law in the second reading, the deputies did not support such a proposal..

In 2020-2021, parliamentary parties received almost UAH 1.5 billion from the state budget as funding for statutory activities and compensation for campaign costs.

However, where exactly these funds are spent, taxpayers do not know, since parties enjoy the right not to submit financial reports to the NAPK.

About 1.4 billion hryvnia more last year, parties attracted from private donors. Who provided these funds will become known only after the full resumption of financial reporting..