Perils to Parliamentary Elections in 2013

Stoycho P. Stoychev

The lack of a professional electoral administration and voter registration regulations, coupled with the replication of the party structures in the electoral commissions, made the electoral process unnecessarily complicated and offered fertile ground for elections manipulations.

Regardless of the possible changes in the elections code before the 2013 elections, the outcome will be far from the desired one. Putting an end to election fraud once and for all requires the development of a new legislative framework. Whether that should be a new code or a single law, the new legislative framework should put forward a clear long-term strategy for the development of electoral democracy in Bulgaria.

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