Following Bulgaria’s early parliamentary elections on April 19, Foreign Minister Nadezhda Neynsky provided an update on the turnout of Bulgarian citizens who voted abroad. According to the minister’s briefing on Monday, just under 200,000 Bulgarian citizens cast their votes overseas. Of this total, 53,000 individuals utilized machine voting systems.
The Foreign Minister noted that a significant majority of the overseas voters—156,000, representing 81%—had not completed advance registration and instead submitted applications to vote on the actual Election Day, a factor that reportedly slowed down processing times. Neynsky detailed the ongoing logistical operations across several international locations. In the United States, ballot counting remained in progress across the westernmost voting sections.
Furthermore, the minister reported that in Turkiye, voting extended past the official end of Election Day in seven different sections due to high numbers of people waiting to vote. In the United Kingdom, five voting sections in London required extended working hours to accommodate voters. Additional reports covered various European nations: voting continued after 8 pm in one section each in Spain and Norway, while two sections in Serbia also experienced extended hours.
The Foreign Minister provided these updates regarding the participation of the diaspora who voted across multiple jurisdictions.
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