(Amended) - The main political parties raised a total of €803,880 in their televised fund-raising marathons yesterday. The PN raised €467,880 while the PL raised a further €336,000.
Last year, the PN and the PL raised a total of €672,037. The Nationalist Party had raised €436,135 while a further €235,902 were raised by the Labour Party, which, for the first time, had also grouped its collections into one.
In the same events in 2009, the PN raised €410,525 and the PL €210,511.