An entire section with over 1,000 voters is registered at one address in the Roma hamlet in the city of Stamboliyski. This was announced by the GRAO office in the city. From there they added that on the street "Petko Rachov Slaveikov" No. 31 is home to over 1,200 people, BNR summarized.
The data discrepancy is related to changes in the law that regulate the way in which address registrations are made.
According to Radka Tomova, chief expert from the GRAO office in Stamboliyski,
all houses in the hamlet have been listed at this address for many years.
"Our Roma neighborhood was created like all Roma neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city many years ago. The mass of people there have always behaved at this address. The houses are illegal, once built on private or municipal property. They are not legal, they are not regulated. But the interesting thing is that the state, through its institutions, has silently allowed this to happen and has not stopped it from serving them. It's just that in recent years, certain situations in our Roma neighborhood and the frequent elections brought this situation to the fore, but it has nothing to do with the elections," Tomova explained.
We remind you that on Friday the MP from “Vazrazhdane“ Krastyo Vrachev announced in the parliament data from an inspection of the Regional Administration in Plovdiv, according to which 1,093 people are registered at this address in Stamboliyski.
The absurdity with the street address “Petko Rachov Slaveikov“ 31 is not from now on. It is about a property where no one lives after the last owners have died.
According to Todor Marinov, who lives in the hamlet, all the families there are registered at this address. "Maybe it has been like this for 70-80 years. It is very clear that more than 1,000 people cannot live there, but where is the mistake - with the one who records or with the one who goes to register?" Marinov asks. According to him, when the houses were built, they were not legalized.
"A few houses are legalized. Everyone wants to legalize their houses, pay taxes to the state, but they don't allow it,
he explained. He added that elderly people lived at number 31, who died and since then there has been no one there, reports BNR.
The data discrepancy is related to changes in the law that regulate the way in which address registrations are made.
"Since 2011, in my opinion, a not very good law on address registration was adopted. I think it severely limits people's ability to sign up. Too many demands that people can't meet.
People without personal property and unable to find someone to provide their property, they remain without an address. We have records in a national database - a mass of people without an address, outside the classifier of settlements. These people don't enter anyone's base, they can't get their IDs, they don't exist.
A mother without an address gives birth to a baby without an address now",
comments Radka Tomova.
For years, registrations have not been made in the hamlet of Stamboliyski, but this leads to the absurdity that many women cannot receive social benefits for their children because they do not have an address. Many of the men in their neighborhood take wives from other settlements, but they also cannot be registered under the current law, Tomova pointed out.
"About 1200 people live at this address, in the base I use. But there, the movement of the population is currently based on death and birth rates, because we do not do address registration. Decreases due to death. But the women who have an address registration by birth, some of them are physically not here either, because they have settled in other settlements, but they cannot register there either. It's a vicious circle," explained the employee.
Therefore, GRAO officials hope that the law will be changed again to put an end to such absurdities.