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"en.20111012.18.3-261-000"2
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"Madam President, the Bureau of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) will meet in Sofia in two days’ time. The guests who are going to support the ruling GERB (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria) party, just a week before the presidential and local elections, are expected to include Mr Barroso, Mr Buzek and EU Commissioners. I am not going to address the issue of whether such a political engagement is acceptable for the persons mentioned. However, I would like to ask them, from this Chamber, to use their visit to ask some questions as well. Why were current mayors and candidates subjected to all kinds of pressure by the authorities to step down from taking part in the elections? How can the interior minister run the ruling party’s pre-election headquarters using its entire human resources against its political opponents? Why was the opposition’s voice stifled by dissolving parliament in the run-up to the elections? This is setting a precedent in the country’s 20-year democratic history. Why were thousands of Bulgarians living abroad deprived of the opportunity to vote in the presidential elections, while the vote there is being organised not by the constitutionally appointed ambassadors but by proxies appointed by the foreign minister? I can go on with this list. I hope that the international observers will give an objective assessment of the state of Bulgarian democracy."@en1
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