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On February 21, the Pazardzhik District Court (POS) launched the case, initiated by an appeal of Atanas Vodev against the decision of the Municipal Election Commission (OIC) to declare Fidel Beev mayor of the municipality of Velingrad. The presiding judge is Judge Penka Yaneva. Lawyer for F. Beev is Atanas Zhelezchev and At. Vodev defended the lawyers Bozhikova and Simeonova, who won in SAC the case for termination of the mayoral powers of F. Beev because of his involvement in company management. The candidate for mayor Angel Toporchev and the chairwoman of the OIC Ivanka Stancheva also appeared as an interested party in the court.
According to the complaint filed by At. Vodev, significant violations were allowed in the election process, summarized in 12 points, on the basis of which a cancellation of the election result was requested. OIC Chairwoman Ivanka Stancheva announced to the court that she had no objections to the appeal (9 out of 11 OIC members signed the decision on the election of F. Beev for mayor with a particular opinion). The complaint is unfounded, announced lawyer Zhelezchev. An opinion was not expressed solely by Angel Toporchev, who was not familiar with its text in advance.
At the February 21st hearing, the court rejected lawyer Zhelezchev's request to overturn the order suspending F's inauguration. Beev. The conclusion of the first hearing was unusual: in the courtroom from the headquarters of F. Beev announced that they had received information that at the same moment ballots were being removed from the building of the municipality in Velingrad in the presence of police. The "news" turned out to be fabricated: in fact, at that time, officers came to the municipality to install a security system, as there were no security equipment in the premises where the ballots were.
In the past week, by virtue of a court order, all ballot bags from the February 12, 2005 elections were unmasked. This was done in the presence of the chairmen and members of the relevant sectional committees, representatives of the OIC, the municipal administration and the election headquarters of the candidates. The sectional protocol, the receiving-transmission and the so-called ballot bags were removed from the ballot bags. reverse protocol, which was subsequently sent to the court. After the documents were removed, the ballot bags were again sealed in front of the listed witnesses. On February 28, the case continued, with lawyer Bozhikova listing a number of violations of the Local Elections Act (LMA) in the course of the elections for mayor of the municipality of Velingrad:
1. In 7 sections in the composition of the committees are included persons outside the approved by the OIC lists of the main and reserve members. This occurred in sections 7, 11, 14, 17, 24, 50 and 62. 2. In 9 sections (13, 36, 38, 39, 41, 46, 53 and 58) the electoral lists do not contain the legally binding signature of the mayor and secretary of the municipality. Thus their evidentiary power is entirely compromised.
3. 4 polling stations do not list the permanent address of voters, which is a violation of the PMI. 4. In sections 7, 43, 44, 47, 60, 65, numerous corrections have been made, including crossed out names and PIN and entry in their place of other names and PIN.
5. It is reported as the actual vote of persons under 70 who voted with an old personal passport instead of an ID card. 6. In the electoral lists are listed names without personal data, which makes their verification impossible.
7. Data from verified SIC protocols indicate that more ballots per mayoral candidate have been returned from individual sections than is the difference between the ballots handed over and used. From this follows a conclusion about voting with pre-distributed ballots in violation of the law. 8. No inventories of invalid ballots and empty envelopes were drawn up in a total of 14 sections, which is also a violation of the law. Att's lawyer. Vodev asked for another expertise with an expert economist or mathematician to draw up a reference for all sections. The report will specify the number of delivered, used and actually returned ballots and envelopes for Fidel Beev. This will require a manual recount, which at the request of the defense F. Beev will be performed in court in the presence of representatives of interested parties and expert Lubomir Tsrunchev.
According to lawyer Zhelezchev, all of the above violations are not significant and are not decisive in view of the huge result by which F. Beev wins the election. The defender stated that the trial was being purposefully delayed in order to prevent Mr. Beev from taking office. Therefore, a rescinding of the definition by which the court stopped the inauguration of the newly elected mayor was demanded again. Judge Yaneva rejected the request, pointing out that on the part of F. Beev has filed a private complaint against the definition and when the shortcomings of this complaint are eliminated, it will be immediately transmitted to the SAC.
The candidate-mayor Angel Toporchev asked for the ballots and envelopes for the other two candidates to be counted in the same order. The request was not upheld as it was not the subject of Att's complaint. Vodev.
Testimony before the court was given by the manager of Radio "ChLC" Vesela Tsintseva, who confirmed that on the eve of the elections from 7 to 9 February 2005. at a frequency close to the frequency of the "ChLC" its program was broadcasting illegally radio "Velingrad", owned by SD "Brothers Beevi".
As evidence in the case, the court accepted 51 pieces of F ballot envelopes. Beev, who were glued. The next hearing was on 10 March 2005.
Elena Baeva