Expenditures of the pré-candidats are controversial. What is the philosophy of the commission
Only the official candidates in a presidential election, i.e. those on the list of the Constitutional Council, must submit a campaign account. However, a new category appears, it is pré-candidats that declare in advance that they submit to the investiture of their political party. For those who are not designated, the expenses that they have carried out a year before the election will be to deal either with their Committee support, either with their party and we have no right to look into their account. It remains only one question: now pré-candidat official candidate there or not is for one year (from April 1, 2006) of spending "to obtain the votes of the electors"

Where you put the cursor between the expenses incurred to obtain the votes of activists and those made in the direction of the French
When an electoral meeting is organized by the party itself to discuss with a pré-candidat and that it is not public, the commission considers that these expenditures are not made for the votes of the voters in the presidential election. They are therefore not in future candidate campaign account.
What political books, written by a pré-candidat
Expenditures that the candidate would have made for the promotion of a book he had written during the year preceding the election for the suffrage of voters must be included on the account: for example if the candidate did purchase his works team to distribute rallies.
And if the pré-candidat organizes sessions open to the public signatures
Everything will depend on what the candidate will record in its account and information that we have on the conditions in which these operations were funded.
Another subject of controversy, travel by these pré-candidats in an official function.
The means of the community must be used for it and it alone. Breach it incur criminal punishment. However, some movements often have a multiple purpose: exercise of the official function and also political activity. Can you share the costs between the public community and the candidate The commission does not wish to enter these necessarily arbitrary assessments. Should be more it proves that if there had not been a candidacy, displacement would have not occurred.
New forms of payment (credit card, Internet...) membership or donations raise problems
In the previous regulation, the gift was made in case or by cheque and the holder of the account was clear. But since the Finance Act for 2006 authorized the payments by credit card, the problem of identification of funds becomes difficult. Indeed, next to the individual bank cards, there are business cards on which is the name of the employee and not of the company. Therefore, we do not, if this person donations, the way to verify that they were property of a natural person and not a company, which is strictly forbidden by law.
In addition, if donations are limited, memberships, they are not for members "benefactors".
It depends on the internal rules of the parties. Some set amount of assessment; beyond this amount, it's a gift. But if there is no specific schedule or authorized members benefactors to exceed these limits, in this case a high assessment gives rise to the tax benefit of 66. The commission suggests that this situation be clarified, for example by setting a global ceiling for the whole gift more assessment.