التنظيم القانوني للإنفاق الانتخابي في العراق : دراسة مقارنة

الملخص EN

Political money is the main basis for activating the electoral process in Iraq recently.

so the integrity of the elections and ensuring the principle of equal opportunities between candidates require the existence of legislation regulating the process of using money in elections, starting from the sources of obtaining it, passing through the mechanisms and controls of its spending, leading to imposing deterrent penalties for violating the provisions of financing and spending related to it.

In light of the reformation that Iraq has been witnessing since late 2019 represented by the issuance of the new Parliament Elections Law No.

9 of 2020, the electoral campaigns system No.

5 for the same year, and the many calls and promises that the upcoming elections will witness a radical difference from the previous ones in all aspects, including financial aspects, we have raised the need to study the legal organization of electoral spending in Iraq by highlighting the basic legal principles regulating the use of money in elections under the new election law and its regulations issued in a way compared to the Lebanese and Algerian laws, by dividing this paper into two sections.

In the first, we deal with the concept of electoral spending by dividing it into two demands; the first clarifies the definition of electoral spending, while the second sheds light on the chapters of electoral spending.

The second section is devoted to researching the legal organization for financing electoral spending and through two demands as well.

In the first, we explain the sources of financing electoral spending and the controls of its spending, and in the second we explain the control over electoral spending and the penalty for violating it.