The prosecutor's office is also intervening in the case for the annulment of the results of the National Assembly elections. "Information Service" has filed a signal to the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office, and on the day when the CEC was waiting for the recalculated results from the state-owned company, which by law processes the voting data. The deadline for this is 3:00 p.m. tomorrow, and only after that will the CEC send the information to the Constitutional Court, BNT reports.
The Sofia City Prosecutor's Office has requested all correspondence between the Central Election Commission and the Constitutional Court, including that with "Information Service". The state-owned company also sent to the SGP the flash drives given to the CEC by the constitutional judges, which contain the results of 2204 sections recalculated by the experts. It was on the basis of these changes that "Information Service" was supposed to recalculate the results of the national vote. In the late afternoon, it became clear that this would not be today.
Georgi Bakhanov, CEC: "I am currently reading the letter from them to us that they have handed over to the SGP all documents and materials, including technical media used to carry out the activities and enter the data from the protocols, including flash drives provided to the CEC by the Constitutional Court, which is why they are unable to carry out the activities assigned to them at the present time."
Erkhan Chaushev, CEC: "We are, so to speak, the owners of these flash drives, purely legally. And whether and how and what they provided upon a signal to the "Information Service" themselves without our permission is a separate issue."
Rositsa Mateva, spokesperson for the CEC: "Once copies of all documents are prepared, I will report it for sending to the prosecutor's office."
In practice, on the day the Constitutional Court was waiting for the results from "Information Service" and the CEC, it received a letter from the commission that the deadline for processing the data was being extended. At its extraordinary meeting, the CEC decided to give the state system integrator a deadline of 3 p.m. tomorrow.
So tomorrow the CEC should already say whether there would be changes in the distribution of mandates after the final introduction of the amended protocols. Based on this, the Constitutional Court must decide whether there will be changes and what kind. For now, it is clear that there will be a change in the number of valid and invalid votes. The reason - while checking the 2204 sections ordered by the court, the experts did not receive ballots for two sections, for another five sections there are no ballots from either machine or paper voting. So, although initially the section election commissions registered votes, due to the fact that the ballots in question are now physically missing, the votes cast in these seven sections are being nullified. The CEC has calculated that this is about 780 votes.
Tsvetelina Peneva, member of the Public Council to the CEC: "What we already understand is that the number of actual votes in some of the sections will be changed downwards, namely these are the so-called zeros that we read from the leaked letter from "Information Service". In the letter we understand that there are two sections with completely zeroed results, this was confirmed today by Kamelia Neykova, we will have five more sections in which the results for paper or machine voting will also be zeroed."
It was from "Information Services" that we learned about the missing ballots. By law, they are kept by the municipal and regional governments until the next elections of the same type. According to the Regional Election Commission in Blagoevgrad, however, all section commissions have handed them over bags full of ballots and election papers.
Martin Busarov, RIC-Blagoevgrad: "What happened after the sections left us for their municipalities to hand over their materials - I can't tell you, since the municipal administrations are responsible for accepting the papers."
The 4% barrier for entering the National Assembly, established after the last vote, is 97,458 votes.