The Cabinet approved 18.5 million BGN from the budget of the Central Election Commission (CEC), announced the press center of the Council of Ministers.
Of these, BGN 17.4 million are for the financial provision of activities related to the production of the elections for people's representatives on October 27. The remaining BGN 1.1 million is for the financial provision of the preparation and production of new and partial elections for municipal councilors and mayors in 2024.
The amount is intended for payment of public procurement contracts concluded by the CEC. They are related to the provision of machine voting, production and delivery of specialized paper for machine voting ballots, paper ballots, computer processing of voting data, issuance of the Bulletin for the results of early elections and financial provision for the preparation and production of new and partial elections for municipal councilors and for mayors.
The resource will also provide state fees according to Tariff No. 12 for the fees that are collected in the system of the Ministry of Finance under the Law on State Fees.
Funds will be provided through restructuring of expenditures and/or transfers under the 2024 central budget.