2024-09-12 19:20:35
- Sevinch Solakova asked for changes in the Electoral Code so that everyone can be on an equal footing with electronic registration requests
- Chenchev and Svilenski will get back the deposit for the independent registration of the BSP
After the court ordered the CEC to register Delyan Peevski’s coalition “DPS – New Beginning” for the elections, the commission complied and unanimously agreed to implement the decision.
Before the vote, Erhan Chaushev, who is a quota member of the movement in the CEC, took the floor and pointed out that the court’s decision has been made, but after it there are also new circumstances that the CEC must discuss and decide whether they should be included in the reasons. “At 5 p.m., there was an application for the DPS party to leave this coalition. At 7 p.m., a counter proposal arrived by e-mail – no, we cancel the previous applications, we want to remain in this coalition.” These are different facts that are related. According to the decision and its reasons, any documents received, including by e-mail, must be discussed and their nature assessed,” he insisted. Chaushev reminded that the documents are submitted by 5 p.m. But by 5 p.m. there is a certain type of declaration of will, which needs to be discussed.
With the clarification that one should not comment on the magistrate’s decisions, the other representative of the movement, Sevinch Solakova, said that the court decision worried her. “Ask the CEC what it is doing with the provision of opportunities to perform procedural actions in electronic form. The CEC has no way of providing this as an opportunity for all participants in the electoral process. The Electoral Code must regulate the procedure in order to fulfill the requirement, which the court assumes is available, which is not a fact,” she said. One of the motives of the SAC to request registration of the “New Beginning” is precisely the precedent of submitting an electronic request before the start of accepting physical documents in the CEC.
After that, the CEC took up the request of Jevdet Chakarov to appear independently at the DPS. “The project was condemned in a working group, all mutually exclusive requests received in the form of applications and decisions by the two chairmen were reflected. In accordance with the stated reasons and Art. 57 para. 1 of the Electoral Code and decision 9728 in the administrative case of the Supreme Administrative Court” the members decided to refuse self-registration of DPS for the elections.
“I don’t remember the reasoning behind this decision. At 5 p.m. there is a clear will that all the wills up to now by proxies and Chairman Peevski have been canceled by an act at 5 p.m. by Chairman Chakarov. What is written here does not correspond to reality. There is Final will. What contradictions, there is some kind of sequence. On the first application, withdrawal of the withdrawal and so on. What is contradictory to him,” Chaushev was angry.
In the end, Chakarov’s request for self-appearance was rejected by 13 members of the commission, Sevinch Solakova and Chaushev were against.
According to Solakova, it should be noted the fact that a party, which is generally created for the purpose of participation in elections as a democratic mechanism for participation in governance and power, acts through its chairman through his name, face and signature. “We saw it in the CEC, and in the other case – through a proxy. This fact cannot be ignored. This is not reflected in the decision,” she said.
Chaushev was not satisfied that the last two applications were not discussed, and that no action was taken on them.
Solakova asked the CEC to send a letter to GRAO, asking them to exclude from the database checks on signatures that have nothing to do with registered parties and coalitions. “More precisely, the DPS and the coalition with Chairman Chakarov, because they will not be used for registrations, as we did with the signature of the “Bulgarian Socialist Party”, she suggested. The committee members split 8 to 7 and so the proposal failed to pass. CEC spokeswoman Rositsa Mateva, however, requested that a letter be sent to GRAO and that only the signature of the DPS be excluded, and this passed with 15 votes “for”.
Ivan Chenchev and Georgi Svilenski, who submitted documents for BSP’s independent appearance in the elections, will get their deposit back, the CEC decided with 13 votes “for” and two against.