The Central Election Commission (CEC) cooperates fully with and fulfills the tasks assigned by the Constitutional Court, CEC Chair Kamelia Neykova said during a hearing in Parliament. During the hearing, the MPs will question the leadership of the Central Election Commission and election service provider Information Services, as it is trying to see who did what regarding a constitutional case on the lawfulness of the October 2024 elections.
The Constitutional Court has been approached by several parties challenging the lawfulness of the elections. As part of the case it opened, the Court hired experts to do a new count of the ballots in some 2,204 polling stations and once the recount was done, it instructed the Central Election Commission to recalculate the results. CEC, in turn, asked election services operator Information Services to do the recalculation. On March 10, Information Services said that all relevant paperwork had been provided to the prosecuting magistracy. In an unprecedented statement, the Court said that providing the election papers to the prosecuting magistracy without its permission hinders its efforts to conclude the case challenging the election results.
Neykova said that CEC has always fulfilled its obligations and would never hamper the Constitutional Court as it does its job.
She went on to offer a detailed account of the steps taken by CEC and Information Services in relation to the Constitutional Court case - to this day, when they handed to Information Services all paperwork and instructed them to perform the recalculation of votes by 9am on Wednesday.
Neykova added that the Constitutional Court has all the information about what steps have been taken.
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