site.btaGERB Will Reckon with Central Election Commission Whatever It Decides - Borissov

"There is a Central Election Commission (CEC) that has been elected by other majorities long before us: whatever it decided, we reckon with them," GERB leader Boyko Borissov told journalists here on Friday, commenting on a report of the State Agency for National Security (SANS) about a possible breach of the security of the voting machines' software code.
 
There Is Such a People Floor Leader Toshko Yordanov said earlier in the day that, according to the SANS report, two days after CEC had generated a hash code in a public event, a deputy minister of electronic governance entered the room, repeated the whole procedure, took pictures with his phone and retrieved the information on a memory stick. The hash code is one of the keys protecting the machines.

"Nobody asked him to take picture, so that we would be blamed afterwards," Borissov commented. "We did not take any pictures, we don't have the codes," he added. Replying to a question, he insisted that he, GERB and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms have nothing to do with the scandal. "If somebody breaks the rules, let them take the responsibility," he stressed.

He was indignant that his party incurred this criticism despite deciding against attending Friday's planned plenary sitting of the National Assembly, even though earlier Borissov had tried to persuade Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) Co-Floor Leader Kiril Petkov to attend the sitting and override a presidential veto on Energy Act amendments.

"This is an unprecedented scandal, a cabinet member picked by the party that was mandated to form the cabinet says that this same party is pressuring him," GERB-UDF Floor Leader Desislava Atanasova commented, referring to CC-DB. She pointed out that at a second meeting of Parliament's chair, deputy chairs and floor leaders, Electronic Governance Minister Alexander Yolovski said that the only order he had signed in connection with the process was authorizing a deputy minister and was not at all directly concerned with the process.