As of tonight, the voting premises in tomorrow's early parliamentary vote will be under the protection of the Ministry of the Interior and will remain sealed until the start of election day at 7 am.
Earlier today, members of nearly 13 thousand sections of the country equipped the polling stations with everything necessary.
The Central Electoral Commission had to stop the mass replacements of SEC members, which are done at the suggestion of the parties and coalitions of the regional commissions.
After it became clear by noon that in many places in the country the replacement of members of sectional commissions from the regions at the suggestion of the parties and coalitions is interfering with the process of preparing tomorrow's vote, the CEC gave instructions to stop this practice. The Chairperson Kamelia Neikova:
"As we all know, nowadays SECs receive election papers and materials, arrange the polling stations, so endless last-minute substitutions can create difficulties in the election process.
The CEC motivated its instruction to the regional commissions with a provision of the Election Code, BNR recalls. It states that each sectional committee exercises its powers from the day of appointment until the completion of the relevant type of election and the delivery of election papers and materials to the RIC. And when exercising their powers, members of sections are officials within the meaning of the Criminal Code.
Secretary of the CEC Sevinch Solakova reported that an appointed member of the commission informed her by phone that he was unable to collect the election papers:
"In the municipality of Slivnitsa, one person called me to say that he managed to get the certificate after a scandal, but he did not take part in obtaining the materials because they were given to others, who according to him were not part of from the decisions, but are part of requests made to the RIK".
The Commission forwarded two appeals to the Supreme Court for decisions related precisely to replacements of members of sectional commissions made by the RIC.
Signals and complaints about today's prohibited campaigning and damage to the prestige and authority of candidates, but on social networks, were submitted to the CEC without specifics and remained unexamined.
A report of threats was sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs - Kardzhali.