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Two of the spokespersons of Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission - Biser Troyanov and Ralitsa Negentsova - said the CEC would welcome OSCE observers. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has made it clear it would welcome observers for the presidential and local elections on October 23, 2011, if the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe decides to send any.
"We are not afraid of being observed," one of the CEC spokespersons, Biser Troyanov, stated Wednesday.
The CEC statement came in response of concerns raised Tuesday by the ethnic Turkish party DPS (Movement for Rights and Freedoms) whose Deputy Chair Lyutvi Mestan complained that the ruling center-right party GERB, the nationalist party Ataka and the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party had been cooperating in order to eliminate DPS representatives from key positions in the municipal electoral commissions around the country. That is why, the DPS party demanded observers from the OSCE.
Ralitsa Negentsova, another of CEC's spokespersons, did say that most of the heads of the 264 municipal electoral commissions around Bulgaria are representatives of the ruling party GERB.
The final deadline for the formation all of 264 municipal commissions for the presidential and local elections on October 23 is Thursday, August 18, 2011. Over 200 of the local bodies have already been put together, according to CEC.
With a few days left before the deadline, a total of 11 parties and 5 initiative committees have submitted registrations for participation in Bulgaria's presidential vote. Out of the 84 political formations that sought registration for the local elections, 12 were rejected; 7 of the rejects appealed CEC's decision before the Supreme Administrative Court and their registrations were ultimately accepted.
According to Negentsova, the registration procedure is transparent enough, and the Central Electoral Commission does not need to make public its decision protocols. Troyanov said in turn that the CEC was not obliged by law to make its protocols public.
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