15% Mid-day Voter Turnout in Bulgaria's Gabrovo Mayor Elections

Nearly 15% of the voters in Bulgaria’s city of Gabrovo went to the polls by mid-day. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency

The Municipal Electoral Commission in Bulgaria's central city of Gabrovo reports a 14.56% voting activity by mid-day Saturday.

There are several complaints and alerts about violations of the election process, which the Commission is currently checking and will announce the outcome later.

One complaint has been addressed and resolved so far by removing campaign materials of two political parties displayed near election polls, which is prohibited on Election Day.

Polls opened at 6:00 am for Gabrovo’s citizens, who are choosing between seven runners their new mayor.

Gabrovo has 125 polls while 64 791 people have voting rights.

The 7 listed parties are the ruling center-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, (GERB), the nationalist Ataka, the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), the centrist party of former king Simeon Saxe-Coburg National Movement for Stability and Prosperity, (NDSV), the conservative Order, Law and Justice (RZS), the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party and the right-wing Blue Coalition Plus, which brings together nine right-wing political formations. Their respective candidates are Nikolay Sirakov, Nikolay Grigorov, Radi Stoyanov, Nikolina Karabelova, Pencho Penchev, Boyan Savyanov, and Iva Nikolova.

The candidate of the ruling GERB party Nikolay Sirakov, who has served so far as deputy mayor, is widely viewed as the most likely winner.

Gabrovo holds local elections after Mayor Tomislav Donchev became the new Minister without portfolio in Bulgaria's GERB government appointed to speed up the ability to use European Union funds.

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