AFC spent close to $400m on election – Gaskin

Less than $400 million (US$2 million) was spent by the AFC for the May 11 general and regional elections, according to party treasurer Dominic Gaskin who said that while accounting for funds spent by the party is almost complete, they are waiting on APNU.

Prior to the elections, the General Secretaries of both APNU and the AFC had promised that funding for their campaigns would be transparent and that their agreement caters for a complete audit of campaign funding to be made public by the first week in August of this year. “The campaign we are promising will be clean and I will also promise you that funding will be transparent,” General Secretary of the AFC David Patterson had told Stabroek News. “By 12 weeks after the election,