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Bulgaria's caretaker Prime Minister, Marin Raykov, file photo
The press office of Bulgaria's caretaker Cabinet confirmed Saturday evening that its business relations with the now-infamous printing house in the western town of Kostinbrod have concluded on May 8.
"The Council of Ministries is not bound by the public tender contract and by the law to execute control on the ballot printing facility after that date – May 8," the statement reads.
The statement came in the aftermath of breaking news reported by TV7 that the Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office is probing the case of some 350 000 suspected to be illegal ballots seized from a printing house in the western town of Kostinbrod.
The ballots, allegedly, were to be used to manipulate the vote in the early general elections on Sunday, May 12, to turn the results in favor of the formerly-ruling centrist Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, GERB.
The printing house is owned by Yordan Bonchev, municipal councilor in Kostinbrod from GERB, who is said to be close to GERB's Deputy Chair and former Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov.
The printing house was mandated to finish and stop printing ballots on May 8, thus the seizure of the 350 000 ballots found there late on May 10.
The caretaker government confirmed in the Saturday statement that the requested and needed 8 343 000 ballots have been received by the printing facility, selected through a public tender, within the deadline of May 8.
The caretaker Prime Minister, Marin Raykov, is quoted in saying he was pleased measures have been undertaken to prevent vote manipulations. He has also extended gratitude to the Prosecutor's Office for its actions.
Raykov is further calling on all political parties to not use the case to score points in the eve of the early general elections and to refrain from political propaganda, which is banned on the day of reflection - the day before the vote.
Yordan Bonchev is firm the said ballots had to be discarded over printing flaws and had to be kept in sealed packages at the printing house as the public tender rules postulated.
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