Political Finance Database

"St. Lucia does not have any norms exclusively dedicated to the regulation of politicalelectoral financing. [...] St. Lucia does not prohibit financing from foreign and/or anonymous sources." Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia does not have any norms exclusively dedicated to the regulation of politicalelectoral financing. [...] St. Lucia does not prohibit financing from foreign and/or anonymous sources." Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia does not have any norms exclusively dedicated to the regulation of political electoral financing. Norms regarding indirect or in-kind public financing are also nonexistent, meaning that campaigns are financed entirely through private funds. […]Nor are there legal regulations on the origin of the private resources that enter campaigns; […] Electoral campaigns, including those observed by the 2011 Mission, are self-financed by candidates or by the private sector.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia does not have any norms exclusively dedicated to the regulation of political electoral financing. Norms regarding indirect or in-kind public financing are also nonexistent, meaning that campaigns are financed entirely through private funds. […]Nor are there legal regulations on the origin of the private resources that enter campaigns; […] Electoral campaigns, including those observed by the 2011 Mission, are self-financed by candidates or by the private sector.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia does not have any norms exclusively dedicated to the regulation of political electoral financing. Norms regarding indirect or in-kind public financing are also nonexistent, meaning that campaigns are financed entirely through private funds. […]Nor are there legal regulations on the origin of the private resources that enter campaigns; […] Electoral campaigns, including those observed by the 2011 Mission, are self-financed by candidates or by the private sector.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia does not have any norms exclusively dedicated to the regulation of political electoral financing. Norms regarding indirect or in-kind public financing are also nonexistent, meaning that campaigns are financed entirely through private funds. […]Nor are there legal regulations on the origin of the private resources that enter campaigns; […] Electoral campaigns, including those observed by the 2011 Mission, are self-financed by candidates or by the private sector.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia does not have any norms exclusively dedicated to the regulation of political electoral financing. Norms regarding indirect or in-kind public financing are also nonexistent, meaning that campaigns are financed entirely through private funds. […]Nor are there legal regulations on the origin of the private resources that enter campaigns; […] Electoral campaigns, including those observed by the 2011 Mission, are self-financed by candidates or by the private sector.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia does not have any norms exclusively dedicated to the regulation of political electoral financing. Norms regarding indirect or in-kind public financing are also nonexistent, meaning that campaigns are financed entirely through private funds. […]Nor are there legal regulations on the origin of the private resources that enter campaigns; […] Electoral campaigns, including those observed by the 2011 Mission, are self-financed by candidates or by the private sector.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

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"St. Lucia has no norms that require political parties to apply standardized mechanisms to register the flows of campaign funds, nor does it regulate administration of said resources." Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia has no norms that require political parties to apply standardized mechanisms to register the flows of campaign funds, nor does it regulate administration of said resources." Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia has no norms that require political parties to apply standardized mechanisms to register the flows of campaign funds, nor does it regulate administration of said resources." Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

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"St. Lucia does not have any norms exclusively dedicated to the regulation of political electoral financing." Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia does not have any norms exclusively dedicated to the regulation of political electoral financing [...] Norms regarding indirect or in-kind public financing are also nonexistent, meaning that campaigns are financed entirely through private funds. […]Nor are there legal regulations on the origin of the private resources that enter campaigns; […] Electoral campaigns, including those observed by the 2011 Mission, are self-financed by candidates or by the private sector.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia does not have any norms exclusively dedicated to the regulation of political electoral financing [...] Norms regarding indirect or in-kind public financing are also nonexistent, meaning that campaigns are financed entirely through private funds. […]Nor are there legal regulations on the origin of the private resources that enter campaigns; […] Electoral campaigns, including those observed by the 2011 Mission, are self-financed by candidates or by the private sector.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia does not have any norms exclusively dedicated to the regulation of political electoral financing [...] Norms regarding indirect or in-kind public financing are also nonexistent, meaning that campaigns are financed entirely through private funds. […]Nor are there legal regulations on the origin of the private resources that enter campaigns; […] Electoral campaigns, including those observed by the 2011 Mission, are self-financed by candidates or by the private sector.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia does not have any norms exclusively dedicated to the regulation of political electoral financing [...] Norms regarding indirect or in-kind public financing are also nonexistent, meaning that campaigns are financed entirely through private funds. […]Nor are there legal regulations on the origin of the private resources that enter campaigns; […] Electoral campaigns, including those observed by the 2011 Mission, are self-financed by candidates or by the private sector.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia does not have any norms exclusively dedicated to the regulation of political electoral financing [...] Norms regarding indirect or in-kind public financing are also nonexistent, meaning that campaigns are financed entirely through private funds. […]Nor are there legal regulations on the origin of the private resources that enter campaigns; […] Electoral campaigns, including those observed by the 2011 Mission, are self-financed by candidates or by the private sector.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

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“There is no direct public financing in St. Lucia, either normatively or in practice.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"The only provision for public financing is for elected parliamentarians who receive an equal amount of money to maintain constituency branches." Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2006, Secretariat for Political Affairs, OAS, 2007

Opposition parties complain that the ruling party makes unfair use of the Government Information Service (GIS) and the recently established, government-owned National Television Network (NTN), both of which are overseen by the Department of Information Service (DIS). To the degree that this is true, it is balanced somewhat by the provision of a small amount of free airtime on the partially government owned Radio St. Still, the ruling party remains at an advantage as the time allotted is based on a political party’s relative strength in parliament. During the last elections in 2001, for example, Radio St. Lucia gave one fifteen-minute and one twenty-minute slot to the ruling party, one twenty-minute slot to the official opposition party, one ten-minute slot to any other party that had nominated candidates, and a five-minute slot to independent candidates.” Source: Ryan, Selwyn, Disclosure and Enforcement of Political Party and Campaign Financing in CARICOM States in Griner, Steven & Zovatto, Daniel (ed. by) (2005), From Grassroots to the Airwaves: Paying for Political Parties and Campaigns in The Caribbean, The Organization of American States (OAS) and International IDEA, Washington D.C, 2005

"Opposition parties complain that the ruling party makes unfair use of the Government Information Service (GIS) and the recently established, government-owned National Television Network (NTN), both of which are overseen by the Department of Information Service (DIS). To the degree that this is true, it is balanced somewhat by the provision of a small amount of free airtime on the partially government owned Radio St. Still, the ruling party remains at an advantage as the time allotted is based on a political party’s relative strength in parliament. During the last elections in 2001, for example, Radio St. Lucia gave one fifteen-minute and one twenty-minute slot to the ruling party, one twenty-minute slot to the official opposition party, one ten-minute slot to any other party that had nominated candidates, and a five-minute slot to independent candidates.” Source: Ryan, Selwyn, Disclosure and Enforcement of Political Party and Campaign Financing in CARICOM States in Griner, Steven & Zovatto, Daniel (ed. by) (2005), From Grassroots to the Airwaves: Paying for Political Parties and Campaigns in The Caribbean, The Organization of American States (OAS) and International IDEA, Washington D.C, 2005

Opposition parties complain that the ruling party makes unfair use of the Government Information Service (GIS) and the recently established, government-owned National Television Network (NTN), both of which are overseen by the Department of Information Service (DIS). To the degree that this is true, it is balanced somewhat by the provision of a small amount of free airtime on the partially government owned Radio St. Still, the ruling party remains at an advantage as the time allotted is based on a political party’s relative strength in parliament. During the last elections in 2001, for example, Radio St. Lucia gave one fifteen-minute and one twenty-minute slot to the ruling party, one twenty-minute slot to the official opposition party, one ten-minute slot to any other party that had nominated candidates, and a five-minute slot to independent candidates.” Source: Ryan, Selwyn, Disclosure and Enforcement of Political Party and Campaign Financing in CARICOM States in Griner, Steven & Zovatto, Daniel (ed. by) (2005), From Grassroots to the Airwaves: Paying for Political Parties and Campaigns in The Caribbean, The Organization of American States (OAS) and International IDEA, Washington D.C, 2005

“The only provision for public financing is for elected parliamentarians who receive an equal amount of money to maintain constituency branches.“ Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2006, Secretariat for Political Affairs, OAS, 2007

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“BRIBERY - The following persons shall be deemed guilty of bribery within the meaning of this Act?(a) Every person who, directly or indirectly, by himself or herself or by any other person on his or her behalf, gives, lends, or agrees to give or lend, or offers, promises, or promises to procure or to endeavour to procure any money or valuable consideration to or for any elector, or to or for any other person in order to induce any elector to vote or refrain from voting, or corruptly does any such act aforesaid on account of any elector having voted or refrained from voting at any election.” Source: Article 78, Chapter 1.02, Elections Act, 2008

“There are no regulations that limit campaign expenditures by political parties or restrictions on the most costly aspects of a campaign, known as triggers of expenditure.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

“There are no regulations that limit campaign expenditures by political parties or restrictions on the most costly aspects of a campaign, known as triggers of expenditure.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

“There are no regulations that limit campaign expenditures by political parties or restrictions on the most costly aspects of a campaign, known as triggers of expenditure.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

“There are no regulations that limit campaign expenditures by political parties or restrictions on the most costly aspects of a campaign, known as triggers of expenditure.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

“There are no regulations that limit campaign expenditures by political parties or restrictions on the most costly aspects of a campaign, known as triggers of expenditure.” Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

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“The only piece of legislature [sic] relating to the need for politicians to disclose is the Integrity in Public Life Act of 2002' [This relates to asset disclosure by MPs].” Source: Ryan, Selwyn, Disclosure and Enforcement of Political Party and Campaign Financing in CARICOM States in Griner, Steven & Zovatto, Daniel (ed. by) (2005), From Grassroots to the Airwaves: Paying for Political Parties and Campaigns in The Caribbean, The Organization of American States (OAS) and International IDEA, Washington D.C, 2005

"St. Lucia has no norms that require political parties to apply standardized mechanisms to register the flows of campaign funds, nor does it regulate administration of said resources. Though the lack of norms in the area of accountability does not translate into a complete absence of reporting practices, it leads to discretion and arbitrariness; parties simply apply those mechanisms that they prefer or those that are most applicable to their electoral financing strategies." Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

“The only piece of legislature [sic] relating to the need for politicians to disclose is the Integrity in Public Life Act of 2002' [This relates to asset disclosure by MPs].” Source: Ryan, Selwyn, Disclosure and Enforcement of Political Party and Campaign Financing in CARICOM States in Griner, Steven & Zovatto, Daniel (ed. by) (2005), From Grassroots to the Airwaves: Paying for Political Parties and Campaigns in The Caribbean, The Organization of American States (OAS) and International IDEA, Washington D.C, 2005

"St. Lucia has no norms that require political parties to apply standardized mechanisms to register the flows of campaign funds, nor does it regulate administration of said resources. Though the lack of norms in the area of accountability does not translate into a complete absence of reporting practices, it leads to discretion and arbitrariness; parties simply apply those mechanisms that they prefer or those that are most applicable to their electoral financing strategies." Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

“The only piece of legislature [sic] relating to the need for politicians to disclose is the Integrity in Public Life Act of 2002' [This relates to asset disclosure by MPs].” Source: Ryan, Selwyn, Disclosure and Enforcement of Political Party and Campaign Financing in CARICOM States in Griner, Steven & Zovatto, Daniel (ed. by) (2005), From Grassroots to the Airwaves: Paying for Political Parties and Campaigns in The Caribbean, The Organization of American States (OAS) and International IDEA, Washington D.C, 2005

"St. Lucia has no norms that require political parties to apply standardized mechanisms to register the flows of campaign funds, nor does it regulate administration of said resources. Though the lack of norms in the area of accountability does not translate into a complete absence of reporting practices, it leads to discretion and arbitrariness; parties simply apply those mechanisms that they prefer or those that are most applicable to their electoral financing strategies." Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

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"St. Lucia has no norms that require political parties to apply standardized mechanisms to register the flows of campaign funds, nor does it regulate administration of said resources." Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

"St. Lucia has no norms that require political parties to apply standardized mechanisms to register the flows of campaign funds, nor does it regulate administration of said resources." Source: Organization of American States, Final Report of the Electoral Observation Mission in Saint Lucia General Election 2011, OAS  Secretariat for Political Affairs, 2012

“The only piece of legislature [sic] relating to the need for politicians to disclose is the Integrity in Public Life Act of 2002' [This relates to asset disclosure by MPs].” Source: Ryan, Selwyn, Disclosure and Enforcement of Political Party and Campaign Financing in CARICOM States in Griner, Steven & Zovatto, Daniel (ed. by) (2005), From Grassroots to the Airwaves: Paying for Political Parties and Campaigns in The Caribbean, The Organization of American States (OAS) and International IDEA, Washington D.C, 2005