Elections

Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has sent 357 complaints and signals for misuse of personal data in the registration of candidates for the European Elections.

The complaints have been sent to the Commission for Personal Data Protection, while a further 20 signals have been sent to the Prosecution, Dariknews reports.

Bulgarians can check their electoral register entry and learn the address of their polling station for the upcoming European Parliament elections online.

The State Electoral Commission said that the voting went well with reports of minor irregularities.

“By 17h 41, 23 per cent of the electorate had cast their ballots” informed.

This is  considerably less than at the previous presidential poll five years ago when by this time, 48,73 percent had voted.

Neither the coalition parties nor the opposition can allow the sworn enemies of democracy, currently under investigation for serious offenses, to manipulate public dialogue and steer politics off course.

The center-right needs a clear ideological identity. Political instability and the absence of an organized center-left have left it with the task of representing the people who believe in true democracy as well as Greece’s future in the European family.

Local and international organizations seeking to follow the election process will have registered just over 3,000 monitors with the State Electoral Commission by the end of the deadline on Wednesday at midnight.

The civil association MOST, which provided most local monitors for Macedonia's previous elections, said it plans to deploy 2,240 monitors.

Bulgarians who wish to vote on the European elections from their current address of residency as opposed to their permanent one, must specify so by May 10.

This has to be done through a written request to the respective municipality or town hall, Dnevnik.bg informs.

There will be no referendum on election rules in Bulgaria alongside the May 25 European Parliament elections.

BELGRADE - Russian Ambassador in Serbia Alexander Chepurin said that the voting in Crimea was very well organized and stressed that everything was done in accordance with the international law.

Voting has began in a referendum on whether Venice and its surrounding region should secede from the rest of Italy, Sunday.

Recent opinion polls suggest that two-thirds of the four million electorate favour splitting from Rome in an attempt to restore its 1,000-year history as a sovereign republic. However, the vote will not be legally binding, the BBC News reports.