How much did political parties spend on campaigns for the October 2 elections in Georgia?

Political parties in Georgia spent over 11 million GEL between August 2 and September 12, says the interim report on the October 2 local self-government elections published by the State Audit Office of Georgia.

The sum was spent in the following areas:

• 6.7 million GEL - on advertising
• 293,357 GEL - on salaries
• 4.01 million GEL - on other expenses including office rent, utilities, business trips and conference / training expenses

How much did each political party spend?

• Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia spent 7.60 million GEL
• Lelo for Georgia  - 796,369 GEL
• Gakharia - For Georgia - 703,604 GEL
• United National Movement - 521,304 GEL
• Girchi - 454,330 GEL
• European Georgia - Movement for Freedom - 330,962 GEL
• Aleko Elisashvili – Citizens - 213,404 GEL
• Davit Tarkhan-Mouravi, Irma Inashvili - Alliance of the Patriots Alliance of Georgia - 125,947 GEL
• Third Force - 103,431 GEL
• Others - 235,113 GEL

43 parties and 68 independent candidates are running in the October 2 local self-government elections.