Balgarianovinite.com The Central Election Commission (CEC) is expected on Saturday to determine the locations in the countries where polling stations will be set up abroad, as well as their number. According to the schedule for the April 19 vote, March 28 is the deadline for the CEC to do so.
“We expect to receive the opinion of the Foreign Ministry tomorrow and then adopt our decision on opening polling stations abroad,” CEC spokesperson Rositsa Mateva told the Bulgarian National Television on Friday.
At Friday’s CEC meeting, Mateva said that the heads of diplomatic or consular missions had not made proposals to open polling stations in honorary consulates in the United Kingdom, the United States and Turkiye. The CEC decided to send a letter with questions to the Elections Working Group at the Foreign Ministry regarding why there were no proposals to open polling stations in honorary consulates in the three countries.
At the beginning of the year, Parliament amended the Election Code and limited to 20 the number of polling stations outside diplomatic and consular missions in countries that are not members of the European Union.
On Thursday, the CEC said that 60,904 applications had been submitted for voting abroad in 67 countries for the April 19 elections. Since the amendment to the Election Code came into force, the CEC has been in talks with the Foreign Ministry to ensure that polling stations can be opened in all available premises of diplomatic and consular missions in the three affected countries – Turkiye, the United Kingdom and the United States – as many as the premises allow, Mateva said. Central Election Commission to Determine Polling Stations’ Locations Abroad 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-03-28 08:47:30 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law