Election Rules: Bulgaria's GERB to Decide on President Veto Tuesday

GERB Deputy Chair Tsvetan Tsvetanov has said the main ruling party is to announce on Tuesday its final position on Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev's veto to the new Electoral Code version.

The draft amendments, which were passed by MPs in April after a number of alterations, were returned to Parliament for consideration after Plevneliev warned newly-introduced restrictions to the opening of polling stations abroad contravened the Constitution.

The changes were put forward by the Patriotic Front coalition, an alliance of nationalist parties backing Bulgaria's minority government.

The curbs sparked outrage from Bulgarians living abroad, followed by an exchange of rhetoric with PF co-leader Valeri Simeonov.

But the PF said earlier this week it was ready to make concessions, after refusing to backtrack before that. The coalition maintains the restrictions would reduce the impact of uncontrolled vote from Turkey, where hundreds of thousands of Bulgarian passport holders have lift since the 1980s.

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