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Ralitsa Negentsova (second from left) is the new Chair of Bulgaria's Supreme Bar Council. Photo by BGNES
Lawyer Ralitsa Negentsova is the new Chair of the Supreme Bar Council, according to the results of the final vote count which ended late on Sunday.
Negentsova's prior position was Chair of the Supreme Disciplinary Court of the Bulgarian Bar.
She will replace Daniela Dokovska, who is not eligible to run for another term in office.
Sunday's vote took place between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., with 170 ballots cast out of a total of 171 delegates in attendance.
Negentsova, who gained public prominence as a longtime member of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), was elected with 109 votes in favor (out of a total of 169 valid ballots) in the first round.
The other candidates were Natalia Tsenova, with 38 votes in favor, Veska Voleva - 17 votes and Marin Markovski - 4 votes.
The session also resulted in the appointment of seven members (out of a total of 15) of the Supreme Bar Council and one member of the Supreme Control Council.
A run-off vote will be held on March 03 to elect a Chair of the Supreme Disciplinary Council and to fill the vacancies at the Supreme Bar Council, the Supreme Disciplinary Council and the Supreme Control Council.
Sunday's voting was marked by the conspicuous absence of the delegates from the Sofia Bar Association.
The 123 delegates, who represent 4905 Sofia-based lawyers (against a total of around 12 000 lawyers in Bulgaria), were barred from casting ballots due to serious breaches of the Bar Act surrounding the nomination of delegates.
The cancellation stirred a scandal Saturday morning, with Orlin Simeonov from the Varna Bar Association seeking a postponement of the vote for a new Chair, only to be cut short by the explanation that legal provisions had it that the session had to take place on the last Saturday and Sunday of February
The same argument was put forth by the outgoing Chair of the Supreme Bar Council, who got booed by the Sofia lawyers.
The delegates left the room infuriated and refused to hear Dokovska's report about 2011.
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