The Stefan Batory Foundation

Anti-Corruption Program

Monitoring of electoral promises

contact: przeciw-korupcji@batory.org.pl

Grażyna Kopińska - Program Director
phone: (48 22) 536 02 58
Grażyna Czubek, phone: (48 22) 536 02 71
Adam Sawicki, phone: (48 22) 536 02 57

Report 2005

Report 2004

Electoral promises 2001-2004

In 2001 during the electoral campaign to the Parliament our volunteers collected 43 000 signatures under a petition to all political parties to take measures against corruption. We collected also from national election committees propositions of anti-corruption measures their parties would advocate in the parliament and published them in the Election Promises – the 2001 Campaign brochure. Since then, in collaboration with the Helsinki Human Rights Foundation and the Social Communication Foundation, we have been reviewing how political parties fulfill their pledges to fight corruption. Each year, on September 23, in the anniversary of the election 2001, we organized a press conference attended by party representatives to evaluate the status of implementation of election promises.

Up to date we have organized 4 monitoring conferences. The transcripts of the conferences are posted (in Polish language version) on the Program’s website and on the page re-launched during the pre-conference media campaign www.obietnicewyborcze.pl.

In 2005, at the end of term of the Parliament we published the report summarizing the achievements of the political parties in combating corruption.

Electoral promises 2005-2009

Project is currently continued during the current Parliamentary term by a wider coalition of NGOs including: Batory Foundation, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Foundation of Social Communication, Center of Civic Education, School of Leaders Association.

Before elections to the Parliament in 2005 the Coalition prepared an Anti-corruption Catalogue containing a set of pressing issues which should be solved in order to curb corruption. During parliamentary electoral campaign, in June 2005, the electoral committees were asked to indicate those problems identified in the Catalogue which they want to deal with in the upcoming parliamentary term and to describe how they want to solve them. In September 2005 Anticorruption Catalogue was presented at the conference summing up first stage of the project. Representatives of 8 political parties running to the Parliament presented their anti-corruption priorities and signed anti-corruption declarations on behalf of their parties.

In September 2006, a year after the Parliamentary election, an annual conference was organized to sum up the implementation of anti-corruption promises made by political parties a year earlier. A Conference was broadcast by TVN 24 and Radio TOK FM which offered media patronage.

Another annual conference will take place in September 2007.