GERB proposes a new head of the CEC



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Today, the ruling GERB party will publicly announce its proposal for a new president of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), BGNES reported.

The term for the nomination of the deputy of Stefka Stoeva, whose resignation was recently voted by the parliament, expires today at 6:00 p.m. The name of the person who is expected to succeed her will only be clear at the end of the day, it was clear in the words of the president of the Legal Commission and deputy of the GERB, Ana Alexandrova, after the vote on the changes in the Electoral Code .

He called speculation the information that appeared in the public space that it is possible that the electoral commission is headed by the recently resigned former Minister of Justice Danail Kirilov. Alexandrova noted that such a possibility had not been discussed.

The government’s decision to fully transfer the responsibilities for the acquisition, maintenance, operation and storage of the voting machines to the CEC Ana Alexandrova commented: “I would not say that we entrusted this task to the CEC, the commission is a permanent body. In an electoral process, if the commission is not in charge of buying the machines, they would accuse us of abusing management ”.



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