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Head of Bulgaria's State-Owned IT Company Quits over Polls Scandal

Politics » ELECTIONS 2013 | March 22, 2013, Friday // 09:49
Bulgaria: Head of Bulgaria's State-Owned IT Company Quits over Polls Scandal Prof. Mihail Konstantinov resigned on Friday. Photo by BGNES

The head of Bulgaria's state-owned IT company Information Services has resigned as the firm was about to be eliminated from the competition for counting the ballots at the early elections.

"I decided to submit my resignation because I know that when it comes to organizing elections trust is the most important thing," Prof. Mihail Konstantinov announced on Friday morning.

The proposal for the removal of Information Services from the competition for counting the ballots at the early elections came after the director of the state-owned company, Prof. Mihail Konstantinov, declared that if the alternative to the center-right GERB government was a tripartite coalition, he would "do everything possible to prevent this from happening."

The statement caused the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), and right-wing Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB) to demand the removal of the IT firm from the election process.

The official decision of the caretaker Prime Minister on the matter is to be announced on March 26, the deadline for filing bids with the CEC for the tender for selecting a company to count the votes at the May 12 elections.

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Tags: early elections, caretaker govenment, Marin Raykov, National Statistical Institute, Information Services, GERB government, mihail konstantinov, Democrats for Strong Bulgaria, Blue Coaliation, Ivan Kostov, Martin Dimitrov

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