Monday, 14th December 2009 - 07:40CET
Political parties have an early Christmas
The big political parties raised a total of €621,136 in fund-raising events yesterday.
The Nationalist Party raised €410,625 while the PL raised €210,511.
The totals were announced by the party leaders at the end of fund-raising marathons held at their party headquarters which saw supporters making contributions on the phone or by calling personally.
During the activities PN General Secretary Paul Borg Olivier formally launched 'Ping' the PN's mobile phone service, while Labour Party leader Joseph Muscat said the PL will next year celebrate the 90th anniversary of its founding in a big way. Activities will include the unveiling of a new party emblem.
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Iva nammetti, jien kont wihed mill eluf li tajt donazjoni lill- PN. Imma l oppozizjoni ma tridx taccetta li hawn ricessjoni fid dinja, u ghalhekk gholiet ftit il hajja. Habiba jekk trid thallas inqas tkomplix tgerger, u ibda issikka ftit ic cintorin. Ghalhekk nirringrazja lil Alla li ghandna il PN fil gvern. Gvern responsabli, u b sahhtu biz zejjed biex jikkonfronta il maltemp. Din kienet il vizjoni tal poplu fis 70s, u l 80s. U ghalhekk nghid grazzi kbira lil Drs EFA, u Laurance Gonzi.
Ma rridx nimmaginani taht il partit socjalista. Sincerament bhal maggoranza kbira tal poplu, imbad ikolli nibza ghal familja, u ghal dak li bnejt f dawn it 22 il sena.
Grazzi Dr. Gonzi. You will always have my and ALL Malta's support.
Are you morally convinced that the political parties raised those amounts from people like you and me?
Ha ha haj, Ha ha haj!!!!!!!!
Well nobody got one cent from me. And thank God to my good sense. I'll be needing a lot of Euro next year if I do not want to end without water and electricity or charged interest on my bills.
You are free writing nonsense because you all forgot that democracy works through organised political parties which have to be financed in one way or the other.
The parties get their money from their supporters and and if you do not contribute just shut up and is none of your business how the party spend the money. The information like a company is given to its share holders in this case they are the party delegates. Reading such senseless writing show lack of knowledge about the finances needed to run a political party or a political campaign when it comes. It is easy to write but pls before doing so get involved somehow to obtain some knowledge about what you write first. Malta abounds with armchair critics or armchair experts.
The PN once more showed that it is the party of the Maltese.
Grazzi Dr. Gonzi.
Keep it up.
dont be sad.. to give such money is anyones free choice ;)
well,,,, i CAN understand actually.
that is how the world goes round,,,,,,yes??
a whole farce.
It would be interesting if telephony companies would provide the general public how much each contributed to the respective party. then the residuals would be from committees etc.
The next comparison will be l_istrina - we will see at what level this would compare when considering the whole population would be contributing to the same kitty. On the basis of the sums collected i anticipate a 1.5 million euro sum at least.
Maybe half of this money could have been given to charity and to those really in need.... but no - political pique has to prevail over anybody else's needs.
Very sad.
collected - Euro620,000
population - 400,000
average Euro1.50 per person or 3 cents per week.
People are free to give their money to who they want - but the government should not be free to give money to the political parties from our taxes!
This does not mean people cannot give money to charity
I too am not convinced by the figures published. I was watching the charade and switching from One Tv to NET Tv when donations by the local political committees were being handed in to both party leaders. On average the amounts donated by PL committees were by far greater than those donated by the PN clubs, probably by three times as much. Bottom line: the PN collect double the amount collected by the PL. Surely there must have been some hefty contributions by the business community to the PN to reach the figure of €410,625. Or else it's all smoke and gas. Now let's see what these parties' contribution to L-istrina and the Dar tal-Providenza campaigns wil be.
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Making political accounts public is a must for this society and fortunately, PL has been already doing so in the General Conference every year.
This year I admired Dr.Muscat encouraging people not just to donate money to his party, but to go and contribute to "Paqpaq fl-Istrina" and other activities organised. He wants Malta to be united and for once leave the partisan ideas.
Merry christmas everyone to all of you and your families.
rgds
Philip
Actually the sum collected 45 minutes before was in the region of euro 217,000 and not 125,000 as you were mentioned. The euro 100,000 collected in those 45 minutes were not attributed to phone calls. Several party executives and regional party organizer handed the leader a number of cheques they collected from the various activities organised by the party clubs /sections.
I am sure you were not following the program at that stage.
or they should pledge a percentage of of the funds raised to charity and the needy.
Huwa veru li qed tghid, imma fi xhin qellibtlu int kien ghadhom ma gewx min kumitatit sezzjonali, deputati, ministri, il-vici prim ministru u s-segretarju generali. Dawn f'daqqa gabru mhux hazin ta flus, u apparti min hekk kien hemm it-telefonati l-hin kollu ghaddejjin.
What astounds me about these collection is how the sums gathered are announced on the tv stations of the respective parties.
At one time i was watching NetTv and the Prime Minister was asked about the target envisged to be collected. He passed the mic to PBO who said that his aim was to surpass the sum of €350,000. At that instance NETTV was showing as already collected €125,000. To my amazement after about 45mins i was on Net TV and to my amazement the sum shown was €325,000. I don't know how many phone calls the PN received in those 45mins to gather the sum of €175,000?
I think it's about time that all political parties involved are to make public all their accounts so that we people can have a GOOD idea of how money is collected and then spent.