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Expat Bulgarian voters

Thu, Jun 21 2001 15:00 CET

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A total of 64,929 Bulgarians voted in 156 overseas polling stations in the parliamentary elections on Sunday, according to figures released by the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.

Compared to the 1997 elections, there were 50 less polling stations this year, noted the Foreign Ministry chief secretary Stoyan Todorov, who headed the interdepartmental commission on overseas voting. But there were 44 polling stations in Turkey, 14 more than in 1997.

Todorov noted that only there were the expectations for a high turnout justified. Thirty nine thousand Bulgarians in Turkey voted compared to only 7,000 in 1997. To prevent repeat voting, Bulgarians who had crossed the border into Turkey on Election Day were not allowed to vote. There were three such attempts in Edirne.

The overall turnout of eligible overseas voters for the next Bulgarian Parliament was slightly over 60 per cent - comparable to the figure in Bulgaria, said Todorov. About 1,000 people voted in Madrid and Barcelona. The same number of people voted in the two polling stations in Chicago.

Of all votes from the overseas stations, 40,492 (including the votes from Turkey) went to the votes in Dobrich, 14,710 to Razgrad, 3,990 to Sliven and 5,737 to Montana.

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