Parties, coalition and initiative committees, which are willing to join the race for Bulgaria's first European parliamentarians in May, started to submit documents for registration at the electoral body.

The deadline for registration at the Central Electoral Committee is April 4.

The political parties, which want to enrol their bids for the MEP elections, will have to deposit BGN 15,000 and a sign-up in their support, made up of 15,000 signatures. The figures for the coalitions and initiative committees stand at BGN20, 000 worth of deposit and 20,000 signatures and BGN 10,000 worth of deposit and 10,000 signatures respectively.

Bulgarian voters will head to the ballot boxes on May 20 to elect for the first time their representatives in the European Parliament.

Currently Bulgaria has 18 and Romania 35 MEPs at the European Parliament. They enjoy full-fledged rights, but are delegated by their parliamentary represented parties instead of elected by general suffrage.

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