“The date on which the presidential elections will be held will be voted on tomorrow by the National Assembly. A draft resolution will be submitted today, proposing the date of November 14. This is the consensus date,” Parliament Speaker Iva Miteva confirmed after as he said yesterday that it is the most probable.
However, GERB and BSP announced the date of November 7 with different motives.
Desislava Atanasova from GERB again reminded the party’s position that this is the best date.
“I understand that none of the other parliamentary groups accept it. In that case, the majority decides, we will not sign a joint decision on the date of the presidential election. We want the elections – presidential and parliamentary, extraordinary – to be on the same date. We believe that otherwise the turnout would have dropped a lot, especially against the background of the epidemic wave, “she was quoted as saying by BNR.
Surprisingly, the BSP also tipped the scales for November 7th.
“Not the 14th, but the 7th, to make sure that there will be no constitutional problem, as the deadline is the 21st, by which the presidential elections must be held,” said Georgi Svilenski, who had in mind. that the vote for head of state will most likely take place in two weeks due to a runoff.
V DPS will comply with the draft decision, announced Hamid Hamid:
“We will join all parliamentary groups if a joint draft decision is submitted for 14 or another date.”
A similar opinion was expressed by Hristo Ivanov from “Democratic Bulgaria”:
“Each of these options has mostly negatives and in this sense we are ready to go for each of them. I can not say that I have any preferences. We need to see how much life there is in parliament, the CEC will finally assure us that everything can technologically to be done “.
In the group of “Stand up BG! We’re coming!” on the other hand, different opinions were heard.
Maya Manolova said it did not matter whether the presidential election would be on November 7th or 14th. However, her party member Nikolai Hadjigenov announced the second date.
There are two purely technological problems – both the CEC and Ciela expressed doubt that they would be able to cope. “I have a preference for them to be separate, not for anything else, but so that the parliament, if possible, can work for another week or two so that we can finish the important things,” he said.
The final decision will take place after a vote in plenary.
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