Bulgarian Diplomats Slammed for Publishing Expat Voters' Addresses

A new outrage is shaking Sunday Bulgaria's Foreign Affairs Ministry over them making public nearly 37 000 permanent addresses in the country of Bulgarians residing abroad.

After failing to adhere to the October 4 deadline to publish the list of names of those who have applied to vote abroad and began doing so only on Friday, on Sunday the Ministry released the full list, but in addition to their names, it includes the voters' addresses in Bulgaria.

Bulgarian expats insist this is a new and huge gaffe because it comes like a "Halloween present to thieves, criminals, robbers, racketeers and real estate frauds."

The alarm was raised by the site for investigative journalism bivol.bg, which is also the official partner of WikiLeaks for Bulgaria.

"In order to have such Mafia State as Bulgaria, several prerequisites are needed, with one being completely unavoidable – the pathological incompetency of all State servants – from the policeman to the ambassador. After the Central Electoral Commission, CEK, consuls, ambassadors and clerks from the Foreign Ministry harassed for a full month and for any reason those wishing to cast a ballot, the institutions were finally able to take revenge on these people for their brazenness to have a citizen reflex and to bother the white-collar nap by releasing the addresses of all pesterers online," Bivol write Sunday.

The outrage comes on the backdrop of numerous complaints from Bulgarians abroad, reporting that diplomatic representations are creating a number of obstacles to those who want to take part in the October 23 presidential elections. The expats threaten to stage protest rallies across the world at Bulgarian Embassies and Consulates.

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