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Ministry of Interior finds dozens of violations connected with the mobile polling stations

Bulgaria's Minister of Interior Boyko Rashkov
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Bulgaria’s Ministry of Interior has found dozens of infringements related to the opening of mobile polling stations during the early Parliamentary elections in July last year, this country’s Minister of Interior Boyko Rashkov announced in the National Assembly.

Inspections in Razgrad district have shown that some of the signatures in the applications for voting via mobile polling stations were not genuine. Moreover, forged medical documents were issued. They were registered by town hall officials. Minister Boyko Rashkov also referred to a case in a regional police department where representatives of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms threatened the local head of department that they would take action, including citizen’s arrests of Interior Ministry officials.




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