Scandal during the presidential consultations
Three parties have asked Slavi Trifonov’s people for their candidate for president, but they are silent
KRASIMIR TSIPOV
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Bthe former Deputy Interior Minister and former GERB MP Krassimir Tsipov was the only nominee for chairman of the new CEC in the consultations organized by President Rumen Radev with the parliamentary parties and coalitions on the commission.
KAMELIYA NEYKOVA
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The decree appointing the new 15 election supervisors is expected to be issued on May 11th so that it has the required 60 days under the law to prepare for the July 11th elections.
EMIL VOYNOV
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Deputy chairmen of the new CEC will be: Kamelia Neykova (“There is such a people”), Emil Voinov (BSP), Tsvetozar Tomov (“Democratic Bulgaria”) and Rositsa Mateva (“Stand up! Get out!”). He will be secretary again Sevinč Solakova (DPS).
ЦВЕТОЗАР ТОМОВ
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A scandal erupted during the consultations over Tsipov’s candidacy. Against the former Deputy Interior Minister jumped “Stand up! Mutri out !, Democratic Bulgaria and BSP. They called on the second largest parliamentary group, “There is such a people,” to name a CEC chief. Unofficially, the attitude of the anti-GERB coalition was that Kamelia Neykova, nominated by Tah, would head the new CEC.
ROSITSA MATEVA
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However, party representatives Victoria Vasileva and Toshko Yordanov, who nominated her for deputy chairman, remained silent.
SEVINČ SOLAKOVA
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The three anti-GERB parties then asked the president to draw lots for the chief post, but he refused, explaining that he was following the law. The DB announced that they would not support Tsipov,
because it is
worked with
Tsvetan Tsvetanov,
and called for a professional CEC staff.
“Tsipov has no experience and experience in organizing the election process,” criticized Maya Manolova. She accused him that while he was deputy minister, the fairness of the local elections in 2015 and 2019, the parliamentary elections in 2017 and the European elections in 2019 was called into question, because the Ministry of Interior was inactive and failed in the fight. with vote buying. GERB insults the voters with its proposal, said the leader of “Stand up! Get out! ”
“I cannot accept Manolova, who created Kostinbrod, talking about the fairness of the vote,” said the head of GERB-UDF deputies Desislava Atanasova.
The president had to restore order and remind party representatives that they were not in parliament and that such a tone and personal attacks by Dondukov 2 were unacceptable. Radev welcomed the decision of the other groups to leave the largest the right to have a chairman. Declare this a sign of respect and a constructive spirit.
“If you have
something against
Tsipov, after
it corresponds
of the law, I
such arguments
I will not accept
I have to
comply with the law “,
the president told them. He also waited to hear from his legal team, which assured that the requirement for the CEC chairman to have 10 years of legal experience was being met. I cannot establish a contradiction with the law and if there are no other proposals for a boss, there will be no lot, Radev was categorical.
“What does this consultation turn into? Someone become a lawyer for another group and call on him for a proposal ?! I do not accept anyone to determine what the candidacies of GERB-UDF will be “, Atanasova also answered. Since all parties have so far not nominated another for chief, if this happens after the debate, it will be as a demonstration, as an agreement – just as the new Electoral Code was made, she added.
The public consultations say just that – that the parties’ proposals are being discussed. We do not object that the first, second and third can nominate candidates for president, but these are positions that are nominated in terms of personality and professional biography, said Manolova. He again urged Trifonov’s people to act, asking if “There are such people” there is a candidate who meets the professional expertise and has experience in organizing the election process. And Nikolay Hadjigenov directly announced that they were not willing to accept GERB’s proposal and a draw had to be made.
“I follow the rules. According to them, there is no point in drawing lots. We can do it, but there will be an envelope “, Radev answered. And summarize ironically:
He is chairman
the candidate of
GERB, dominated
by Mr. Tsvetanov,
who will do
elections of
the president Radev
And Manolova left the hall.
We must find a consensus, because it is the key to increasing confidence in the results of these elections, Hristo Ivanov joined. He explained that he understood that the appointment of a GERB man to head the CEC relieved Radev of the burden. “I’m not guided by that at all,” the president replied.
The basis of the consultations are the proposals that the parliamentary parties make, and the president only gives the outlines of the procedure, interprets the law Prof. Emilia Drumeva, who is a legal adviser to the head of state.
We must act expeditiously and responsibly in order to be able to
CEC to enter
in his
role in the day
of dissolution
of the People’s
meeting
Radev explained.
I want to dispel any manipulation that the president nominates and elects the CEC leadership. That is why here are the forces represented in parliament, which by law nominate the candidates and the leadership. The president does not decide, but only with an act announces the decision of the parties, he added.
A dispute also erupted over the determination of mandates in the CEC. Evgenia Aleksieva of GERB-UDF opposed the method of distributing the largest balance because it harmed them. And he demanded that the last term be determined by lot among the smallest parliamentary forces.
The place for such a debate is in the plenary hall when the law is passed. I am fulfilling what is written, Radev cut it off. However, he would not agree that even the smallest party in parliament would not have a representative in the CEC.
The role assigned to you by the Electoral Code does not suit you, Mr. President, this is the role of a regional governor, said the head of the GERB-UDF General Assembly. She also said she did not agree with the distribution of seats in the CEC.
Aleksieva also asked how there will be an opportunity to ask questions to the nominees for CEC members from civil society organizations. So far, this has happened during the hearing of the candidates by the Legal Committee of the National Assembly.
More than
the nominees
for members of
the new CEC
in fact
have participated
and in previous ones
compositions
GERB-UDF proposed a sociologist Dimitar Dimitrov and lawyers Georgi Slavchev Bahanov and Yordanka Gancheva.
“There is such a people” in addition to Kamelia Neykova, who has a master’s degree in law and has been in the election administration at various levels since 2001, including the CEC, proposed Elka Todorova Stoyanova, who is also a lawyer and since 2003 has been part of the election administrations at all levels. Their third suggestion is Prof. Lyubomir Nedyalkov Gavrilov – Doctor of Mathematics, with in-depth knowledge of technology and knowledge of the electoral process in terms of calculating results.
Apart from Voinov, the BSP nominated the election expert of Positano 20 Tsvetanka Georgieva and a longtime member of the CEC Silvia Stoycheva.
The MRF has nominated its current representatives in the CEC – Solakova and Erhan Chaushev.
In addition to Tomov, Democratic Bulgaria also offers a doctor of mathematical analysis and a lecturer Lubomir Georgiev, who since 2005 has participated in the composition of DECs and MECs.
All applications are to be checked whether they meet the requirements of the law. The head of the commission that will check their documents is the chief secretary of the presidency Dimitar Stoyanov.
The public hearing of the CEC candidates will take place from 9 am on May 7.
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