site.btaConstitutional Court to Review Case Challenging Legality of Last October's Parliamentary Elections on Thursday

The Constitutional Court will have a sitting on Thursday, March 13, to review a case disputing the legality of the October 27, 2024 parliamentary elections, the Court said in a press release on Thursday. To report are justices Yanaki Stoilov and Sonya Yankulova. 

The case has resulted in a limbo and transfer or responsibility between the institutions. 

The Constitutional Court opened the case in November 2024 after being approached by several parties challenging the lawfulness of the October 2024 parliamentary elections. As part of the case, the Court hired experts to do a new count of the ballots in 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. On Wednesday, the CEC finally received the recalculated data from Information Services and decided to send them to the Constitutional Court (CC).