site.btaNovember 14 Elections: Early Returns Give Continue the Change 25.46%, Radev Leads for President with 49.39%, Voting Abroad Ends

November 15 (BTA) - Based on 93.28 per cent of tally
sheets processed by the constituency election commissions,
Continue the Change won 25.46 per cent of all votes in the
November 14 parliamentary elections and the Rumen Radev - Iliana
 Iotova ticket leads with 49.39 per cent before the November 21
second round of  presidential elections, the Central Election
Commission (CEC) said on Monday.

The latest CEC figures are as follows:   

Parliamentary elections:
Continue the Change 25.46 per cent
GERB-UDF 22.78 per cent
Movement for Rights and Freedoms 13.17 per cent
BSP for Bulgaria 10.28 per cent
There Is Such a People per cent 9.60 per cent
Democratic Bulgaria 6.16 per cent
Vazrazhdane 4.88 per cent.

With 2.30 per cent, Rise Up BG! Here We Come! is below the 4 per
 cent electoral threshold.

Voting abroad based on 94.07 per cent of processed tally sheets
yielded the following figures:

Movement of Rights and Freedoms 40.24 per cent
Continue the Change 21.49 per cent.
There Is Such a People 10.60 per cent
GERB-UDF 7.88 per cent,
Democratic Bulgaria 7.79 per cent
Vazrahzdane 6.04 per cen

Presidential elections:

Rumen Radev - Iliana Iotova 49.39 per cent
Anastas Gerdjikov - Nevyana Miteva 22.75 per cent
Mustafa Karadayi - Iskra Mihaylova 11.81 per cent
Kostadin Kostadinov - Elena Gouncheva 3.93 per cent
Lozan Panov - Maria Kassimova-Moisset 3.53 per cent.

Voting abroad for president/vice president based on 94.07 per
cent of processed tally sheets yielded the following figures:

Mustafa Karadayi - Iskra Mihaylova 40.07 per cent
Rumen Radev - Iliana Iotova 36.15 per cent
Anastas Gerdjikov - Nevyana Miteva 8.90 per cent
Kostadin Kostadinov - Elena Gouncheva 4.85 per cent
Lozan Panov - Maria Kassimova-Moisset 4.77 per cent.

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The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said that the election day abroad
 has ended. Polling stations in the states of California,
Arizona and Nevada in the United States and the Canadian city of
 Vancouver were the last to close.

Bulgarians abroad voted in a total of 750 polling stations in 68
 countries. The largest number of voting stations were opened in
 Europe. Some 416 voting machines were
used for the vote abroad in 208 voting stations in 21 countries
in Europe, the US and Canada. Each station had two voting
machines.

The Foreign Ministry made every effort to make arrangements so
that Bulgarians abroad can exercise their right to vote without
any obstacles.

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The prosecuting magistracy has opened 918 case-files and 125
pre-trial proceedings into suspected violations of political
rights of citizens during the presidential and parliamentary
elections on November 14, the prosecution magistracy said here
on Monday.

A total of 33 case-files and 13 pre-trial proceedings contain
data of law violations concerning the presidential elections,
and another 885 case-files and 112 pre-trial proceedings contain
 data of violations concerning the parliamentary elections.

The prosecution magistracy has pressed charges against seven
people. It has also refused to open 25 pre-trial proceedings
concerning the presidential elections and another 601 concering
the parliamentary elections due to lack of evidence.
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