In accordance with the provisions of Article 147 of the Kingdom’s Constitution, which assigns to the Court of Accounts the responsibility for Control of financing of electoral campaigns of the candidates for elections, and pursuant to the provisions of Organic Law No. 27.11 relating to the House of Representatives and Organic Law No. 59.11 concerning the election of members of of the councils of territorial communities, every list representative or individual candidate is required to prepare and submit to the Court a detailed statement of the sources of funding of their electoral campaign, a statement of expenses incurred, along with the relevant supporting documents, within a period of two months from the date of the official announcement of the election results.
The Court of Accounts invites all list representatives and candidates required to submit their electoral campaign accounts to follow the steps below in order to complete their submission through the registry:
Yes. The representative of the list or the individual candidate, as applicable, is required to submit their campaign account for the following elections:
Exemption: Candidates running in municipalities where members are elected by majority vote are not required to submit a campaign account.
No. In the case of an election by proportional representation, it is the representative of the list who is responsible for preparing and submitting the campaign account to the Court.
Yes. Even in such cases, the representative or candidate is required to submit the campaign account to the Court of Accounts.
Following pre-registration on the dedicated portal, electoral campaign accounts must be submitted to the registry either of the Court of Accounts or of one of the Regional Courts of Accounts.
Yes. Campaign accounts must be prepared in accordance with the templates included in the annexes of the joint decision issued by the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of Justice, and the Minister of Economy, Finance and Administration Reform (Decision No. 2299.21).
The account must include:
No. A separate bank account must be opened for the resources and expenses of each campaign, and a distinct campaign account must be prepared and submitted for each election.
The spending cap per candidate is as follows:
For example, the cap for a list with one representative and four candidates running for the House of Representatives is 2,500,000 MAD (500,000 × 5).