Final day of campaigning for Bulgaria’s local elections

No form of campaigning is allowed after midnight on 25^th of October. After a month long campaign for local government elections and a day of reflection on Saturday (26th of October), Bulgarians will go to the polls on 27^th of October.

More than 6,200,000 Bulgarians are eligible to vote in the elections for local government authorities.

The registered candidates for mayors and municipal councilors are approximately 36,000.

Voting will take place in 265 municipalities in Bulgaria.

The Central Election Commission registered 59 parties and seven coalitions for the local elections. Registration was denied to five parties and one coalition. Local coalitions and independent-candidate nomination committees are registered by the municipal election commissions. All seven parties represented in the current Parliament are running in the elections.

The October 27 elections will be the most expensive ones to date. They wiill cost the public 70 million BGN.