Bulgarians will vote with separate white ballots with just one option on them on the MEP elections in 2007, the National Assembly decided Thursday.

MPs from the ethnic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms did not keep their last week's promise not to participate in the discussion of the MEP elections law and took part in the session.

The coalition was united around the position for separate ballots, while the opposition demanded integral ones.

The Simeon II National Movement party claimed the separate ballots for MEP voting was included in the projects of the previous cabinet. Combining the integral ballot with the preferential voting option might be difficult for the voters, SIINM member claimed.

The parliament finally adopted all texts on the MEP voting law at the Thursday session after three weeks of heated debates.

The law states MEP candidates must be at least 21 years of age, to have permanently lived in Bulgaria or other EU member state in the past two years and to not have been imprisoned.

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