site.btaCC-DB Co-Floor Leader Says There Is No Legal Impediment to Prevent Constitutional Court from Pronouncing on Lawfulness of Oct. 2024 Elections

There is no legal impediment to prevent the Constitutional Court (CC) from doing its job and considering and pronouncing on the lawfulness of the October 2024 parliamentary elections, Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) Co-Floor Leader and former Justice Minister Nadejda Iordanova said here Tuesday. She was speaking to the press in Parliament.

The CC 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. 

Iordanova said, "We are seeing hesitation in CEC and Information Services to implement the Constitutional Court's instructions to take into consideration the results of the court-appointed expert recount of ballots and recalculate the outcome. This institutional resistance - I don't want to call it an institutional war - is a cause of concern. Such behavior by the Constitutional Court, the CEC and Information Services is against the interests of Bulgarian people."

CC-DB insist that all institutions "promptly fulfill their legal responsibilities and that the Constitutional Court issue a ruling on the complaints filed against the election results".