" Bigger parties are richer and pay more. If the proportion according to the electoral strength of the formations is preserved, nothing will change. Between 50 and 100,000 votes are bought in an election. This is what he said on the air of "Your Day". the mathematician and former deputy chairman of the CEC Prof. Mihail Konstantinov.
In his words, there are no convictions for the shares against the bought vote, but a maximum of probation. "The public is annoyed that these operations are being selectively acted upon. Some are pursued, others are released. Market economy is that - everything is bought, even votes. 4-5% is the bought vote," he explained.
In turn, the election expert Stoil Stoilov believes that the warning protocols should grow into pre-trial proceedings, and then into verdicts. "The danger of buying votes and of saying that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is holding elections, disrupts voter turnout,", he commented. And compare the information about vote buying with that about the presence of fake cheese on the market - the authorities do not say which formations are betting on vote trading, nor what exactly is the low-quality cheese in the shops.