Registration of parties and coalitions for Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections began

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission (CEC) on February 8, 2021, began accepting documents for the registration of parties and coalitions for the upcoming parliamentary elections.

The deadline for submission of documents is February 17, and the vote itself is scheduled for April 4.

“Democratic Bulgaria” coalition, was the first to register for the elections.

A kind of race took place this morning.

“Republicans for Bulgaria”, the party of Tsvetan Tsvetanov, the former parliamentary leader of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov's GERB party, arrived for registration at 09:00 am. As part of the tradition in the recent years, the first to register was GERB party, with the documents delivered by Tsvetan Tsvetanov, the then-head of the party’s election campaign staff.

Tsvetanov, who created his own “Republicans for Bulgaria” party, had intended to be first to register on February 8, but representatives of “Democratic Bulgaria” coalition, co-led by Hristo Ivanov and Atanas Atanassov waited all night long to be the first to file their documents.

“Democratic Bulgaria” said they were running in these elections with the intention of a complete change. They said that only they could make e-government.

"To reverse the direction of development of the country, to impose a programme for radical modernization, which the country needs. Of course, this includes our priorities such as judicial reform, e-government and removal of GERB - Boyko Borissov, MRF - Delyan Peevski, Dogan, from power. These are our key priorities for these elections, " Hristo Ivanov said.

"Republicans for Bulgaria" said they expect to be in the next parliament and to be an unavoidable factor. They said they would start presenting their sectoral policies within a week.

"We have serious intentions, to be an unavoidable factor in the next parliament and to be able to fulfill the promises we will make during the election campaign. And that is why, within a week, all colleagues from the country and all sectoral policy experts will start online presenting of sectoral policies, starting with judicial reform and with Bulgarians living abroad, " said Tsvetan Tsvetanov.

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