The Court of Auditors, the regulatory body for public finance management, reported Thursday, during the presentation of its 2022 public report, that political parties are ordered to reimburse more than 500 million FCFA, at under the State subsidy relating to the 2020 presidential and legislative elections in Burkina Faso.

According to the president of the Court of Auditors, Latin Poda, assisted by his collaborators, on a subsidy of more than 1,280,000,000 FCFA from the State for the presidential and legislative deadlines of 2020, more than 500 million FCFA are expected from political parties.

Poda also explained that out of 125 political groups having received this grant, 48 have not yet been presented to his institution and do not have an address or an email.

The first head of the Court of Auditors was in Ouagadougou on Thursday, facing women and men from the media on the official presentation of his institution’s 2022 public report.

According to Latin Poda and his close collaborators, the Faso Otherwise
of Ablassé Ouédraogo, the Movement for Change and Renaissance (MCR) of Tahirou Barry and the Peaceful Vision Party of Burkina, Do Pascal Sessouma are also in the viewfinder.

The day’s speakers also specified that other political groups are affected by this reimbursement.

These include, among others, the Pan-African Patriotic Alternative/Burkindi (APP/Burkindi), the Coalition of Democratic Forces for Real Change (CFDC), the Sens Movement, and the Burkina Socialist Party (PS Burkina).

Mr. Poda’s team noted that candidates Ablassé Ouédraogo and Tahirou Barry in the presidential election are excluded from public funding.

It was on Friday February 16, 2024 that the president of the Court of Auditors, Latin Poda, presented the 2022 public report of his institution to the president of the Transition, Captain Ibrahim Traoré.

Source: Burkina Information Agency