- The President's party is set to pocket slightly over Sh316 million in a gazette notice published on Friday by the RPP. The new allocation was occasioned by the second revision of the Supplementary Estimates.
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The United Democratic Alliance(UDA) has received the lion's share as the Registrar of Political Parties(RPP) Ann Nderitu has announced allocations to various political outfits in the Financial Year 2023-24.
The President's party is set to pocket slightly over Sh316,061,825 million in a gazette notice published on Friday by the RPP. The new allocation was occasioned by the second revision of the Supplementary Estimates.
In the initial allocation in the first revision in January 2024, UDA was to receive Sh237 million. The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) was to pocket Sh127 million which has now been increased to Sh168,832,050 million in the June allocation.
The Jubilee party will get Sh19 million more from the earlier allocation of Sh55 million. Kalonzo Musyoka's Wiper party gets a boost of Sh10 million from Sh29 million to Sh39,550,398 million.
“In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 23, 25 and 34 of the Political Parties Act, 2011 and Regulation 6 of the Political Parties (Funding) Regulations 2019, the Registrar of Political Parties gives notice that Political Parties Fund (PPF) allocation has been revised during Supplementary Estimates No. 2 of FY 2023-24 and this has necessitated review of the distribution of the Fund,” the gazette notice reads in part.
Martha Karua's party the National Rainbow Coalition-Kenya got Sh4,139,528 million. Party of Independent Candidate of Kenya PICK (Sh481,451), Devolution Empowerment Party(Sh7,546,159 million), Kenya National Congress(Sh1,014,519 million), Democratic Party of Kenya(Sh3,004,057 million), Party of National Unity(Sh2,442,909 million), Kenya Social Congress(Sh666,514), Forum for Restoration of Democracy Kenya FORD-Kenya(Sh14,162,181 million), Progressive Party of Kenya( Sh1,726,759 million).
Others are Maendeleo Democratic Party(Sh318,718), National Rainbow Coalition NARC(Sh2,822,013 million), Kenya African Democratic Union-Asili KADU ASILI(Sh262,783), Communist Party of Kenya CPK (Sh573,522), Kenya African National Union-KANU (Sh13,165,099 million), Safina Party (Sh1,719,113 million), Chama Cha Uzalendo-CCU (Sh2,149,218 million), Chama Cha Mashinani(Sh4,444,228 million), Amani National Congress-ANC (Sh14,577,402 million), Maendeleo Chap Chap(Sh6,939,973 million) and Movement for Democracy and Growth-MDG (Sh5,368,392 million) among others.
However, the allocations are a significant drop from what the parties received in the Financial Year 2022-23.
In November 2022, UDA pocketed Sh577.2 million, while ODM, Jubilee, Wiper and DAP-K got Sh308.3 million, Sh135.1 million, and Sh72.1 million and Sh31.6 million respectively.
The Political Parties Act in Section 25 states that 95 per cent of the Fund is allocated to the total number of votes secured by each political party in the preceding General Election and 5 per cent accounts for the administration expenses of the Fund.