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Sun, Feb 05 2012
CEC backdates Stoyanov
The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) registered the nomination of President Petar Stoyanov and Nelly Kutskova, chairperson of the Sofia District Court, retroactively to September 26 on Tuesday. The candidate couple for president and vice-president was entered in the registry under number one, after some documentation problems were sorted out.
On September 27, the CEC refused to accept the registration documents of the two because the signatures of the 172 members of the committee were handed in as a separate folder and the CEC concluded that these signatures did not constitute an integral part of the declaration. The signatures are required to be submitted both on the declaration and separately.
"It was important that the registration is backdated to September 26, since the signatures were collected after that date," said a lawyer for the CEC, Ivan Boyadzhiev, referring to the separate collection of the signatures of citizens supporting the candidates.
The campaign for gathering supporting signatures from citizens took place across the country last Friday. Six times more than the required 15,000 signatures, about 94,600, were gathered in support of Stoyanov and Kutskova's campaign as independent candidates in the forthcoming elections. In Sofia alone, 29,000 signatures were collected in 12 hours.
The oldest people who signed the petition were two 101-year-old women from Sliven and Rousse. The majority of the signatories were around 20 years old.
Thirteen young people, volunteers in Stoyanov's election campaign, took the 47 folders with citizens' signatures to the CEC on Monday. The CEC's spokesperson, Tsveta Markova, accepted the documentation. The signatures will be taken to the Ministry of Regional Development and checked across the national computer database for duplicate or invalid entries. The inspection will be complete once at least 15,000 signatures are verified.
By Wednesday, no other candidates besides Stoyanov and Kutskova had been registered with the CEC. The presidential elections are scheduled for November 11.
On September 27, the CEC refused to accept the registration documents of the two because the signatures of the 172 members of the committee were handed in as a separate folder and the CEC concluded that these signatures did not constitute an integral part of the declaration. The signatures are required to be submitted both on the declaration and separately.
"It was important that the registration is backdated to September 26, since the signatures were collected after that date," said a lawyer for the CEC, Ivan Boyadzhiev, referring to the separate collection of the signatures of citizens supporting the candidates.
The campaign for gathering supporting signatures from citizens took place across the country last Friday. Six times more than the required 15,000 signatures, about 94,600, were gathered in support of Stoyanov and Kutskova's campaign as independent candidates in the forthcoming elections. In Sofia alone, 29,000 signatures were collected in 12 hours.
The oldest people who signed the petition were two 101-year-old women from Sliven and Rousse. The majority of the signatories were around 20 years old.
Thirteen young people, volunteers in Stoyanov's election campaign, took the 47 folders with citizens' signatures to the CEC on Monday. The CEC's spokesperson, Tsveta Markova, accepted the documentation. The signatures will be taken to the Ministry of Regional Development and checked across the national computer database for duplicate or invalid entries. The inspection will be complete once at least 15,000 signatures are verified.
By Wednesday, no other candidates besides Stoyanov and Kutskova had been registered with the CEC. The presidential elections are scheduled for November 11.
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