Interior Minister Rashkov Accused Turkey of Interfering in Bulgarian Internal Affairs

Turkey's behavior during the elections in Bulgaria can be interpreted as interference in our internal affairs.

This was stated by Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov at a briefing on the organization of the vote.

Rashkov said Turkish media had called for mass participation in the elections, in which there is a Turkish presidential candidate for the first time, and campaigned for DPS leader Mustafa Karadayi. And the emigrants were urged to make a "strong voice from the ancestral homeland."

Rashkov recalled that 1,500 people voted in one section in Izmir. According to him, this is objectively impossible.

According to media reports in Turkey, both the ruling party and the opposition helped the emigrants vote there. The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS)  received over 80,000 votes from our southern neighbor.

Rashkov said that again, most investigations into a corporate vote are related to GERB, which he called the "asphalt party" and DPS.

During his statement, a video was released on the Internet about buying of votes for GERB.

"There are very serious results from the actions of the Ministry of Interior. There were speculations, suggestions, several days in connection with the voting machines. Whole teams from one party openly tell lies on TV. The first round went smoothly," Rashkov said.

He said the issue of buying seats in parliament had not been resolved.

Rashkov announced that in the first round there is a record of the established cases in which there are data for initiating pre-trial proceedings for a crime against the political rights of citizens.

There were 122 cases for buying votes, compared to 91 in the previous parliamentary elections. The Minister...