We must give a very clear account and point out to the public that what is happening at the moment and what we are unfortunately observing and participating in for the last 48 hours, further undermines trust in institutions. Trust in the electoral process was so terribly undermined that we saw unprecedented low turnout. Now what we see is that there are attempts to undermine trust in the process of verifying the legality of the parliamentary elections. This was commented on in the studio of "The Day Begins" the deputy from PP-DB Nadezhda Yordanova.
In her words, there is an attempt to tarnish the prestige of the Constitutional Court, which is worrying.
"I am one of the complainants, on whose complaints the current constitutional proceedings are developing. The behavior of the institutions that question the exercise of the powers of the Constitutional Court is absolutely unacceptable. I insist that the court exercise its powers quickly, objectively and issue a decision that is convincing to the public. It is no coincidence that I and my colleagues as complainants have twice submitted requests to the Constitutional Court. First, to publish absolutely all materials collected in the case, including expert reports, in a machine-readable manner, in a manner understandable to people.
She specified that after she had familiarized herself with the materials in the case, all parties were provided with this opportunity between February 19 and 21, and in her opinion she insisted that the Constitutional Court hold an open hearing in this case. This is not practice, but by law there is this opportunity.
"Exactly in this specific case, when the Constitutional Court - the only authorized body under the Constitution to rule on the legality of the elections to the National Assembly, it acts as a real court. It is normal practice when the court is sitting as a court to hold an open session," Yordanova explained.
She also said that yesterday not all political forces in the plenary hall attacked the Constitutional Court and explained:
"For example, the parliamentary group I am part of - "Continuing Change - Democratic Bulgaria", we did not attack the Constitutional Court. We wanted to clarify what happened, why "Information Service" was so insistent and the CEC are passing the ball to each other, why did the prosecutor's office intervene in the course of a pending case."
Nadezhda Yordanova also indicated that she had thoroughly familiarized herself with the minutes of the sessions of the Constitutional Court, where the expert opinions were adopted, and added:
"There are two groups of expert opinions - one is from the recount of the ballots from paper and machine voting in the sections. It is on the basis of this recount that the experts have reflected in some comparative tables a protocol, a reflected result from the protocol of a section commission and what they saw in the bags. This is the one group of expert opinions that everyone is dealing with. There is also another expert opinion that seems to be pushed around and is not discussed very much, namely the graphological expert opinion, according to which in several sections it is absolutely scandalously established in an indisputable manner that all the ballots were filled in by two, by three... different people. This means that the ballots have been replaced."