Bulgarian President Eager for Online N-Plant Referendum

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev is excited about the potential use of electronic voting in the upcoming referendum that is to decide the fate of the scrapped Belene Nuclear Power Plant project.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov proposed the idea for electronic voting on Monday, saying it would make the referendum a free-of-charge exercise of direct democracy.

"I am very pleased that we have this opportunity," Plevneliev commented on Tuesday. However, he said he was not sure whether Bulgaria is technically ready to carry out electronic voting at such short notice.

"I am very happy that out country will be growing more and more successful and richer. For that purpose we will need an electronic government and electronic voting," he claimed.

Plevneliev also pointed out that a potential electronic voting would ease some 1.5 million Bulgarians living abroad.

The Bulgarian government scrapped the Belene NPP project earlier in 2012, declaring it economically unfeasible. The pro-Belene Bulgarian Socialist Party then launched a petition for a referendum on the Russian-Bulgarian project's fate.

The inspection of the petition recently concluded, with 543 639 valid signatures, enough to make the vote irreversible.

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