By 11.00 am, no signals about serious violations of the electoral process were submitted, Bulgaria’s caretaker Minister of Interior Boyko Rashkov announced. Several thousand police officers are guarding the polling stations in Bulgaria.
The Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Interior are working in parallel at today’s elections. There will be a unit on duty with the Supreme Cassation Prosecutor’s Office. It will summarize information about crimes and electoral fraud. Citizens and non-governmental organizations will be able to signal the district prosecutor’s offices at their emails. A total of 658 cases and files have been opened since the beginning of the election campaign. The Prosecutor’s Office refused to initiate a total of 371 pre-trial proceedings due to the lack of evidence for electoral fraud. Like at the previous early general elections, a special interdepartmental headquarters consisting of representatives of the Prosecutor’s Office and the State Agency for National Security, was formed.
The National Revenue Agency is inspecting currency exchange offices due to increased interest in buying euros . Within just one week, the exchange of Bulgarian leva into euros increased by 43%, the agency’s director, Rumen Spetsov, announced in..
Kiril Petkov announced at a briefing that he is taking political responsibility and resigning as co-chair of "We Continue the Change" (part of the PP-DB coalition, which has the second largest number of MPs in the National Assembly)..
A Japan-Bulgaria business forum on the topic of "Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalization" was held in Sofia. "Bulgaria has a whole palette of advantages. However, they are little known in Japan. Our task is to provide much clearer..
Another protest against the adoption of the euro took place in Sofia and other cities in Bulgaria on June 28. The protest in the capital Sofia..
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