Who financed the parties in 2015

In 2015, according to the analysis of Insajder.net, parties were financed primarily from public sources and from individual donations of physical persons. Very few legal entities, i.e. companies and entrepreneurs, were mentioned in the reports as having helped the work of the parties in 2015.

The Anti-Corruption Agency is preparing the final report about the financing of parties in 2015. It has yet to be seen how accurate these reports are.

"While controlling the reports for 2014, the Agency found that some party donors were users of welfare benefits, companies running losses, firms which were founded right before the donation and liquidated immediately after, and that parties were helped even by pre-school institutions and pensioners' associations."

According to professor Zoran Stojiljkovic, a member of the Board of the Anti-Corruption Agency, the majority of these suspicious transactions are difficult to prove and most often remain unsanctioned.

SPS has the biggest donors

The biggest payment last year, 1.2 million dinars, was made by the company One Time d.o.o., which was founded in mid-2014 according to the Agency for Commercial Registers (APR) and had profit of 12,000 dinars in 2015. There are also Probeton, Probanat, Leon Sistem and Global Solutions, which donated several hundred thousand dinars to the SPS.

Entrepreneur Vladimir Jovicic, who opened his company PR Portir in mid-November 2015, supported the work of the Serbian Radical Party with three million dinars in 2015.

"Of the parties which entered the Parliament, the Socialists' Movement also mentioned donations from legal entities in their report. They received around 1.7 million dinars from a total of 16 companies, including one bakery and one play-room for children."

Only three companies made donations of 100,000 dinars or more - Metalfer Steel Mill (100,000 dinars), ARMA Podvodka d.o.o. (314,273), OD FH Leontije Firicaski Leontije i Ostali (157,600).

Among the rare parties whose work was helped by companies is the Social Democratic Party (SDS) of Boris Tadic. It received a total of 333,950 dinars from a baker's shop, an agency for advertizing services and an agency for administration services.

Donations from sympathizers

Judging by the financial reports, the majority of parties did not receive donations from businesses, but only from physical persons.

Among the 174 donors of the SPS, 119 made payments of more than 200,000 dinars. Still, there were no high party officials among the donors.

How much the parties got from the budget

• SNS 440,837,059.80
• DS 99,993,629.61
• SPS 95,060,763.38
• SRS 3,543,929.60
• SDS 37,676,469.10
• LDP 1,576,839.62
• PUPS 49,083,069.30
• SDPS 30,754,070.64
• New Party 8,508,741.00
• Unified Serbia 28,675,377.90
• Socialists' Movement 1,646,067.23
• Dveri 27,904.30

* amounts are in dinars.

Some of the biggest donors of the Socialists were Ivan Djokovic, who gave 770,000 to the SPS, Aleksandra Djankovic with 710,000 and Darko Jevtic with 700,000.

The following persons each donated 600,000 dinars to the SPS: Ljubisa Dasic, Gojko Micunovic, Tatjana Polusevski, Slobodan Simonovic and Marko Topo, while Spasoje Zvijer donated 640,000 dinars.

Veselin Bojic, Miroslav Kopanja, Zivan Obrenovic, Goran Radic, Slavko Surbatovic and Gojko Trkulja helped the SPS with 500,000 dinars each, while Nikola Dangubic and Borislav Ratic donated 550,000 dinars.

In the Democratic Party (DS), some of the biggest donations were from the party members.

The biggest donation, 304,000 dinars, was from Edip Serifov, an official of the party and head of the Zvezdara municipality. Party leader Bojan Pajtic gave 257,000 dinars to the DS.

Balsa Bozovic donated 89,600, while Oliver Dulic and Dragan Sutanovac financed the party with 62,400 dinars each.

Among the party leaders who helped their own party was Aleksandar Vulin, who paid 60,000 dinars to the Socialists' Movement.Last year, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) received only two donations, amounting to 125,000 dinars, while the Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS) of Rasim Ljajic was helped by only one donor - party official Ivan Bauer with 48,000 dinars.

According to their latest financial report, besides payments from the budget, the Serbian Progressive Party received donations only from sympathizers. The SNS received a total of 1,617,420 dinars from 47 people.

Except one donation of 80,000, all others ranged between 20,000 and 40,000.

Who was in the black, who in the red?

Of the 12 observed parties, the SNS, the SPS, the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS), the Unified Serbia (JS), the Dveri, the Socialists' Movement and the SRS had a positive balance, while the DS, the LDP, the SDPS and the SDS had bigger expenditures than income.

It is interesting that the New Party spent exactly as much as they received in 2015.

On the other hand, the LDP spent almost three times as much as they received. Their income was worth 1,702,287 and expenditures 4,532,363 dinars.The most money remained in the account of the SNS, which had income of 442,459,205 dinars last year, and total expenditures of 221,831,792 dinars.

The most money according to the law, from the budget, went to the Serbian Progressive Party and that accounted for almost all of the party's income in 2015.

In their report, the SNS mentioned only donations from sympathizers, in the amount of 1,617,420.00. According to the financial report, the SNS had no income from legal entities, from membership fees or from property.

Unlike them, the SPS earned as much as 50,668,617 dinars from property last year.

As for donations from physical persons, the most money also went to the SPS - a total of 45,278,896 dinars, and then the DS - with the total of 12,532,026 dinars.

The Serbian Radical Party collected the most from membership fees - 5,609,140.00 dinars. Other parties which mentioned income from membership fees in their reports were the SDS, the DS, the New Party, the PUPS and the SPS.

Jelena Jankovic