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The vote in Turkey started with PERSONAL tension: BNT
Despite the national lockdown, which is in effect on Saturday and Sunday for the whole of Turkey, thousands of Bulgarian emigrants are preparing to vote there. The seven sections of Istanbul received the ballots and voting materials. However, the pandemic raises big questions about the expected activity in our southern neighbor, BNT reports.
The voting started tense in the morning. There are 7 sections open in Istanbul and 350,000 people with Bulgarian passports have the right to vote throughout Turkey.
The section in the Avcalar district opened ten minutes late due to the need for the sectional electoral commission to decide whether people can enter and vote with preloaded statements if they are not on the electoral roll, or they must complete their statements within the electoral center.
After the commission decided that people could vote with preloaded statements, 40 minutes later an observer from one of the political forces arrived, the vote was suspended for 15 minutes, the sectional commission re-voted its decision and according to the new – our The emigrants now have to fill out their declarations inside the voting table. According to them, this will greatly complicate and slow down the process given the small number of polling stations open throughout the country: 35, which according to them is not enough.
The queues are extremely large. The first voters arrived at 6.40 am On several occasions there were scandals between observers of political forces and members of sectional electoral commissions.
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