Tip-offs about buying and selling of votes at Bulgaria's local elections on Sunday heated the situation throughout the whole day, with most of them being anonymous, officials from the Central Electoral Committee said Monday.

The vote buyers have targeted once again the Roma districts the most, and the money offered for a vote ranged from BGN 15 to BGN 100 in Sofia, while in Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv the offered pay-off reached BGN 50.

More than 20 people were arrested around the country on charges of attempting to buy votes, but later all of them were released.

Public Administration Minister Nikolay Vassilev admitted Bulgaria had a serious problem with this issue, which could only be overcome by introducing mandatory voting.

The biggest percentage of electoral law violations was recorded in the Black Sea town of Nessebar, where the percentage reached almost 70%.

In the town of Silistra on the Danube River, vote-buyers found another way to pay for the "goods" - they offered bags with flour to the voters.

In the capital Sofia tip-offs for attempted vote-buying were reported in the districts of Ilinden and Vladaya.

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