Bulgaria's biggest political pary is determined to have the result of May 12 deadlocked election cancelled and will submit a petition to this effect to all institutions involved as soon as on Monday.

Under the Constitution, the decision about the void can be made only by the Constitutional Court.

Under Bulgarian laws, GERB's petition can be forwarded to the Constitutional Court by the entities listed in Article 150 of the Constitution - the Chief Prosecutor, the President, the Chairs of the Supreme Administrative Court (VAS) and the Supreme Court of Cassation (VKS), and the cabinet.

The party of former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov will submit its petition to all five institutions on Monday, local media reported, citing insiders.

The party, which gained a slight lead in the early elections, but not enough to form a stable minority government, wants the results voided on the grounds of a legal violation.

On Saturday, a day before the elections, when by law electoral campaigning is forbidden, prosecutors announced they had raided a printing shop and found 350,000 illegally printed ballots in a printing house owned by a Gerb official.

The party claims its chances had been hurt by news conferences held by other parties in relation to the raid on Saturday.

A political party has the right to ask annulment of election results, but only through the intermediation of five institutions - the President, the Supreme Court of Cassations, VKS, the Supreme Administrative Court, VAS, through their respective judges' plenum, the Chief Prosecutor, and at least one fifth of the sworn-in Members of the Parliament.

The latter is interpreted by the majority of legal experts as needing to have a convened Parliament in order for GERB to be able to ask the Constitutional Court for a void through its MPs.

However, the country's ombudsman offered a different interpretation Friday morning, saying GERB MPs could do the move now, as the mandate starts on election day, not the date of the oath of office.

In commenting on the fact that both President, Rosen Plevneliev, and Chief Prosecutor, Sotir Tsatsarov, have already firmly declared they do not see any need to annul the election results, Penchev said the situation was "schizophrenic."

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