At 5 p.m., the deadline for party registration for the early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria on June 9 expired, BGNES reported.
So far, 22 parties and 14 coalitions have submitted documents to participate in the elections. Today, this was also done by the main actors - GERB-Union of Democratic Forces (GERB-UDF) and We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (WCC-DB).
The campaign was fueled by an unquenchable desire among colleagues to usurp all power. There is no way that a few people can twist the country, the institutions and all of us who live here around their little finger, said Georg Georgiev from GERB, after GERB-UDF registered with the Central Election Commission (CEC).
The elections will not be made by the acting prime minister and ministers or officials but by the Bulgarians. GERB will not rely only on the good done in recent months, but also on 12 years of good name and reputation, Georgiev added. Tomislav Donchev from GERB-UDF said that the elections are both a challenge and an opportunity. "The most important thing is something else. After three years of political timelessness, without a goal and direction, the Council of Ministers had turned into a circle, a course in politics for beginners, and now it is time for Bulgaria to have a normal, prepared government with clear political support, even with bright political figures", Donchev believes.
WCC-DB submitted the necessary signatures for registration in the CEC for participation in the upcoming national and European elections also today.
"We will neither give up, nor surrender, nor let the state be governed by Peevski or by cops in unreformed offices," said the co-chairman of the association Kiril Petkov, after WCC-DB filed its registration with the Central Election Commission. Many people would be happy for us to start distinguishing ourselves from our MPs. In this case, the committee that was created to throw scum on our MP is staged, Petkov also stated about MP Boyko Rashkov and the temporary parliamentary committee for customs.
The co-chairman of Democratic Bulgaria Hristo Ivanov stated that they have worked with GERB and Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) on reforms and are ready to continue this work. "We worked in the name of specific institutional reforms, which were thwarted. This is precisely why we are running for elections and then we will fight for their implementation," Ivanov said, then specified that the majority they are ready to enter after the elections is the only one that will protect the reforms. "We proposed a draft agreement and we remain in the position we were in," Hristo Ivanov emphasized.
6,157,220 voters have the right to vote for the European Parliamentary elections, and 6,639,439 voters for the Bulgarian parliament. The difference is that for the EP there is a residency requirement - a current address in Bulgaria or an EU member state.
BGNES reminds that the political formations that stood up in the official battle for the voters' votes on April 2, 2023, were a total of 21 - 14 parties and 7 coalitions. In the elections in October 2022, a total of 29 political formations appeared. /BGNES
