With two campaigns in just over a year, the trend among the parties is to contain costs and save money compared to 2024. In total, the parties expect to spend €8.45 million on this campaign and among those that already have parliamentary representation, the difference is more than €2 million compared to what was actually spent in 2024.

Even so, the amount budgeted by the parliamentary parties for this year slightly exceeds the €7.98 million that had been forecast last year, revealing that the intention to contain costs comes mainly after the slip-ups recorded in the last campaign.

The small parties want to spend just over 126 thousand euros to try to get enough votes to debut in parliament, with emphasis on the JPP, which hopes to be able to finance the entire campaign with the state subsidy, obtained only in the case of the election of at least one deputy.

In this electoral campaign, Chega expects to spend €1.6 million, more than double the 700 thousand euros budgeted in 2024. The forecast is equally divided between state subsidy (800 thousand euros) and the party's own funds (also 800 thousand euros), and even exceeds the amount actually spent by André Ventura's party in 2024, where expenses reached €1.3 million.

In addition to the significant increase in the budget, Chega goes against the trend of other parties and is the only one with parliamentary representation to estimate spending more than it spent in the early elections of 2024.

Cutting costs

In the opposite direction, AD and PS, together, plan to spend around 1.9 million euros less than what was invested in the 2024 campaign. AD – which has since changed from opposition to government coalition – expects to spend a total of 2.55 million, reducing by more than 700 thousand the amount actually spent in 2024, which exceeded 3.25 million euros.

The Socialists, who took the opposite path and are now in opposition, are no longer the party with the largest budget, reducing their investment by more than 700 thousand euros compared to 2024. The PS expects this campaign not to exceed 2.25 million euros, and hopes to finance it entirely through state subsidies.

In total, the parties represented in parliament expect to invest 2.1 million less than in 2024, and all, with the exception of Chega, make estimates lower than last year's spending.

Liberals lead in fundraising

The Liberal Initiative stands out for its commitment to private fundraising, with 75 thousand euros coming from this type of financing. This amount represents around 13% of its total budget, estimated at 575 thousand euros, and makes the Liberals the parliamentary party with the highest proportion of funding external to the State or the party's accounts.

Accompanying the IL at the top of the list of parties with the highest fundraising are the AD and, curiously, two parties without parliamentary seats: the New Right and Ergue-te. AD has 25 thousand euros in fundraising, Nova Direita, led by Ossanda Liber, with 30 thousand euros and Ergue-te with 15 thousand.

On the left, PCP and BE are the only two parties with parliamentary representation to have raised money in fundraising. The communists expect to invest, from this parameter, 10 thousand euros and the Bloquists 5 thousand.