Bulgarian MPs lose seats as court finds miscount in October election

Bulgarian MPs lose seats as court finds miscount in October election

Sixteen Bulgarian lawmakers lost their seats on Thursday after the Constitutional Court found they were wrongly elected during a partial recount of the October election.

Following a recount of votes from several hundred polling stations, Bulgaria's Constitutional Court announced on Thursday that 16 deputies were erroneously elected in the October 2024 parliamentary elections,...

Bulgaria's Constitutional Court said on Thursday that, based on the recount of votes, 17 deputies were elected incorrectly in the October 2024 parliamentary elections. The recount of votes was carried out in hundreds of polling stations, but the court rejected calls for a recount of all votes. The report comes from Reuters. The Constitutional Court responded to a complaint by the Veličie party, which missed by only 21 votes the four percent elec…

A total of 16 Bulgarian MPs will be forced to resign after a partial recount of votes in the October parliamentary elections due to irregularities, the Constitutional Court announced today.

The Constitutional Court has published its decision in the case challenging the election results. In it, the court declared the election of 16 members of parliament illegal...

The Constitutional Court declared the election of 16 deputies from the current parliament illegal and instructed the CEC to present the new composition of the parliament, which is expected to include the parliamentary group from "Velicie".