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A total of 10% of the Bulgarians listed in the major cites' voter rolls for the upcoming presidential and local elections in the country are "phantoms", a local paper has alarmed.
Bulgaria's Citizens Registration and Administrative Services has listed thousands more potential voters than the recent census carried out by the country's National Statistical Institute would suggest, the local Dnevnik daily has found out.
The institutions keeping track of Bulgaria's population are not obliged to exchange data, the paper points out, adding that the inaccuracies may lead to large-scale manipulations.
People are entitled to share whatever date they want to and there are no tools available for verifying it, representatives of the Citizens Registration and Administrative Services have commented.
At the beginning of August, Mihail Konstantinov, a Professor in Mathematics and a Deputy Chairman of Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) in 2003, revealed that voter rolls in the country contained a total of 6 800 000 names, while the National Statistical Institute had listed a total of 6,100,000 Bulgarians who are eligible to vote, which left a total of 700,000 fake entries.
The Commission for Protection of Personal Data has fined Bulgaria's Foreign Affairs Ministry for making public nearly 37 000 permanent addresses in the country of Bulgarian voters residing abroad.
Bulgaria spared over BGN 8 M in state budget money by carrying out its local and presidential elections on the same date in 2011, the country's Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has stated.
Former Justice Minister Margarita Popova was nominated by the ruling centrist-right party GERB to run for Vice President of Bulgaria in the elections that took place on October 23 2011.
Rosen Plevneliev, former Bulgarian Regional Development Minister, was elected President on the ticket of the ruling, center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria part (GERB) on October 30 2011.
Rosen Plevneliev, Bulgaria's newly elected President, will be officially sworn in on Thursday.
Bulgaria's President-elect and Vice President-elect, Rosen Plevneliev and Margarita Popova, will take the oath of office before the National Assembly on Thursday, January 19.
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