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Prosecutors Detect Unlawful Present Address Registrations in Five Administrative Regions

Sofia, June 23 (BTA) - On May 13, the Supreme Administrative
Prosecution Office (SAPO) assigned countrywide checks into
observance of the Civil Registration Act as part of measures to
stop "voter tourism" before the local elections due this coming
autumn, the SAPO said in a press release on Tuesday.

The checks conducted so far have detected a number of violations
in effecting present address registrations in the regions of
Vidin, Montana, Bourgas, Shoumen and Kyustendil, mainly as
regards the number of persons who can be registered at one and
the same address with the owner's consent, as well as regarding
the documents that have to be produced for registration. Under
the Civil Registration Act, the number of persons who can be
registered at a present address with the owner's consent may not
exceed the number of habitual occupants of the dwelling more
than threefold.

The Vidin District Prosecution Office detected shocking
violations of the Civil Registration Act. Forty-five persons
were registered at a single address in the Village of Kireevo,
and 21 persons at another address in the same village. Acting on
a proposal by the Vidin Regional Prosecution Office, the
Makresh Municipality Mayor has issued 66 orders on striking
unlawful address registrations in Kireevo. Two written
statements ascertaining an administrative violation under the
Administrative Violations and Sanctions Act have been drawn up
against the lieutenant mayor of Kireevo.

In the Village of Belo Pole, prosecutors found that 33 persons
have been registered at a present address without the owners'
knowledge and without the owners having signed declarations of
consent.

The checks are going on, the SAPO said.