IEC says political financing shapes the competitiveness of elections [SOUND]

# The Electoral Commission says political financing remains one of the most consequential and contested dimensions of democratic governance. The IEC, in partnership with the Electoral Institute of Sustainable Democracy in Africa, has published a special issue in the Journal of African Elections focusing on political finance. IEC chairperson, Mosotho Moepya, says the publication interrogates key questions shaping electoral integrity across Africa, including corporate financing of political parties, the persistence of vote buying in law and practice, and the evolving role of public funding: