site.btaResults in Campaign Against Election Violations Between Four and Six Times Higher Than in 2024

So far, results in a campaign of the Ministry of Interior against election violations are between four and six times higher than in 2024, acting Interior Ministry Secretary General Georgi Kandev told journalists in Yambol on Friday. He and caretaker Minister of Interior Emil Dechev awarded the police officers who saved a two-and-a-half-year-old child from falling from the eighth floor of a residential building.

"We are also seeing counterfeit euro banknotes being offered for vote buying. This is one of the new schemes we are observing," Kandev said. According to him, a serious increase is being recorded both in the signals processed by the Ministry of Interior for election violations and in the pre-trial proceedings that have been initiated. At the same time, better results were achieved with fewer resources than in the previous elections, he noted. 

Kandev cited data showing that a total of 979 reports of violations of the electoral process have been received by 12 pm on Friday, compared to 158 reports for the 2024 elections. The initiated pre-trial proceedings are 285, compared to 52 for the previous vote. The number of detainees is 170, compared to 30 for the elections two years ago. The warnings are 2,497, compared to 590 for the previous elections. 

"We also have one downturn and that is in the specialized police operations conducted. For the upcoming elections on April 19, we have conducted 160 so far, and for the same period for the previous vote there were 165, but the results are now between four and six times higher. This means that with less invested resources, both human and material, we have achieved better results," Kandev pointed out. He said charges have also been filed in some of the cases.