976 candidates, each one of them paid a fee of LBP 8 million to run for the parliamentary elections, scheduled to be held in May.
These 976 candidates brought into the state’s treasury around LBP 7.8 billion, which equals roughly $5.2 million.
What does this amount represent in terms of the budget of the electoral process requested by the Interior Ministry and which is divided between the budget of the political affairs and the budget of the Electoral Supervisory Committee?
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