It has been estimated that the Election Commission will be spending over Nu.26 million for the primary round of the National Assembly elections as our reporter Sonam Lhamo informs. The four Political Parties were given Nu. 130,000 for each constituency as campaign fund for the primary round of elections.
In total, the ECB has released about Nu.6.1 million for each Political Party, which amounted to over Nu. 24 million.
The Parties can use the fund for direct campaign purposes such as rental charge for the campaign office, printing of Party manifestos and communication expenses. They can also use the campaign fund for acquisition of stationeries items and hiring motor vehicles among others.
Apart from the campaign fund, ECB will incur an additional cost of close to Nu.2 million on campaign materials for the four political parties. The campaign materials include posters, banners and placards.
The Parties will, however, have to bear the expenses for designing and production of the campaign materials, while ECB will bear the cost of printing.
The cost for advertisement in media, both broadcast and print is also being borne by the Election Commission.
