/ world today news/ Vanya Grigorova and the staff will dispute the result of the mayoral vote, she herself confirmed at a briefing on the results in the capital. The reason – the small difference of less than 5,000 votes between the winner Vasil Terziev from PP-DB and “Save Sofia” and the candidate of the left, as well as many mistakes of a different nature during the voting. The BSP mayoral candidate’s team will ask the court to suspend the OIC’s decision until their appeal is decided. A comparison is currently being made between the protocols in the CEC and those published on the CEC website.
“We are collecting all reports of irregularities and we will submit them as early as tomorrow. We have 7 days to substantiate our concerns about election irregularities,” Grigorova announced.
“I will be the first to congratulate Mr. Terziev if and when the court decides that these results are lawful.” said Vanya Grigorova.
Meanwhile, the Municipal Election Commission has already announced Vasil Terziev as the mayor of the capital.
“A small part of the results have not yet been published by the CEC, although we already have a decision of the OEC. We have a double increase in the number of people who believed in us and supported us between the first and second round. In the first round, we managed to fight one coalition from the assembly. We have little left to fight the second part of the assembly,” said the BSP candidate.
“All the power, financial, managerial, including technical resources available to the assembly in the form of PP-DB and GERB-SDS were harnessed against us,” she concluded. “We will fight for every vote until the end. For us, every Sofian is important. Hope remains alive and freedom is at hand, that means between 3 and 5,000 votes,” said Grigorova.
“There are legal steps we can and will take, there is a democratic procedure for contesting election results so voters can have confidence in the electoral process, which has been undermined by our opponents,” she summed up.
“We are leading in 13 out of 24 districts,” said the woman who lost the mayoral vote by a margin of about 4,500 votes. Grigorova stated that she won in all large residential districts, pointing out Lyulin, Nadezhda, Ovcha kupel, Poduene, Iskar, Novi Iskar, Bankya, Kremikovtsi, Pancharevo, some parts of Mladost. “We gave hope to many people that Sofia can be different,” she commented.
“For us, these elections are not over,” said the chairman of BSP – Sofia, Ivan Takov, and pointed out that they are currently checking section by section. “We already have enough grounds to challenge the final result of the elections. We will not allow the victory to be stolen,” he added.
“We are talking about disputing the election result, not about cashing the election.” specified the leader of BSP-Sofia. And with all the mistakes we see, there are serious doubts that the election could have been different. Here we are talking about a result of less than 5 thousand votes, and therefore we will again insist on checking this result”, explained the chairman of the capital organization of the socialists.
“We are not holding talks with anyone, this will be decided later. Our battle is still for the mayor of Sofia. What will happen in the Municipal Council, that is already a next issue. We are not fighting against machines, as such or against electoral code, and we question the result of the runoff,” Takov stressed. “Since the OIC issued a decision on the election of the mayor already in the morning, we have a one-week deadline to challenge it. This is the first action we will take,” Takov explained.
“Whether I will be the chairman of the SOS is not on the agenda. We have our goals, our program that we will follow. They are the people of the shops, they are the traders, they are the rentiers,” said Grigorova and noted that they had conducted an extremely slanderous campaign against her. “It was a panic,” Grigorova also reminded of Terziev’s refusal to appear against her in a debate.
“They are the ones who organized the elections. They are the ones who complained about sacking. They are the ones who govern and must bear their responsibility,” the mayoral candidate said to PP-DB.
Grigorova confirmed that she remains a municipal councilor and will fight for what she stood for during the campaign.
She denied the hypotheses launched in the public space that she would attack the leadership position of Cornelia Ninova in the BSP.
“These concerns came again from the side of my opponents – I am not a member of the BSP and there is no way she will be elected as the leader of the BSP. I ask everyone to calm down that I will head the BSP. Sofia is on the agenda, as she is the model and the path on which the country moves subsequently,” explained Vanya Grigorova.
At the same time, she gave as an example the unification of the left in Sofia, which can also work at the national level, pointing out that for this the credit goes to the leadership of the metropolitan socialists, not to “Positano” 20.
“I am still the face, the figure that unites the left formations at the metropolitan level, but this happened thanks to Mr. Takov, who led the talks.
It is obvious that there can be no left without us, and it is obvious that the left needs unification and that the results of the unification are more than good,” concluded Grigorova.
The former deputy minister of e-government Blagovest Kirilov again commented on the actions of the managers with the machines and the scandal that arose before the first round. “The problem is not the machines, but the people and the lack of trust in the process,” he said and concluded that changes should be made in this direction, “but not to become hostages to the inability of certain people to manage the process.”
“Transparency is not guaranteed at the moment,” the BSP expert is emphatic.
Vanya Grigorova appealed to the media not to distort her words out of context, referring to statements in the election campaign. “When we say there are differences between us and our opponents, don’t try to misinterpret what we are saying because it is grossly unprofessional of you,” she addressed some of them, whom she did not want to name.
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