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Local elections will be held in the town of Septemvri on Sunday September 27, BGNES reported.
The elections were scheduled for April, but were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic and the state of emergency. The reason for holding local elections in the city is that then-mayor Marin Rachev was removed from office after the Supreme Administrative Court ruled that the Municipal Election Commission in September would terminate Rachev’s term early due to a conflict of interest. checked.
This is Rachev’s second term. In 2015, he was nominated for mayor by GERB, and in 2019 he was supported by the United Agrarians coalition, which included GERB, VMRO, and NFSB.
For the upcoming elections on September 27, his wife, Vaska Racheva, has been nominated in his place. She is also the only candidate for mayor of the city. The Municipal Electoral Commission registered four political parties to participate in the race, including the BSP. However, they did not nominate candidates for mayor of the municipality. Vaska Racheva will appear as an independent in the next elections. / BGNES
In April 2020, Marin Rachev himself was finally convicted of tax evasion in particularly large amounts for the time before he became mayor, when he was a sole trader of fuel.
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