Father of GERB MP Assigned as Reporting Judge on Bulgaria's Contested Presidential Vote

Transparent ballots used at the end-October presidential elections are among the reasons of BSP, DPS and Ataka for requesting a cancellation of the vote. Photo by BGNES

Rumen Nenkov, the father of an MP of ruling party GERB, is on the panel of reporting judges on the case of the contested presidential vote.

The Constitutional Court has assigned Rumen Nenkov, Emilia Drumeva and Blagovest Punev to the case.

Rumen Nenkov is the father of GERB MP Alexander Nenkov.

GERB has said in a statement that reporting judges are selected randomly and the final decision depends on the vote of the 12 constitutional judges.

At the same time, a member of the leadership of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) has confirmed that there are no reasons to question the integrity of the constitutional judge at this stage.

On Tuesday, 71 MPs of BSP, the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) party and nationalist party Ataka requested the Constitutional Court to judge on the legality of the end-October presidential elections, which resulted in a victory for GERB's ticket.

The claimants stated their motives on 18 pages, among which violations of the election process, violation of secret voting standards through transparent ballots, restrictive lists
which allegedly prevented thousands of eligible voters from casting their ballots, the participation of Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov as head of the election headquarters of GERB, vote-buying, etc.

The decision of the Constitutional Court on the legality of the election of Rosen Plevneliev and Margarita Popova as President as Vice-President is due in two weeks' time.

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