The Central Election Commission (CEC) will assign the delivery of the new voting machines to the state-owned company Information Services, the members of the CEC decided on 21 June.
Talks were held with the machines' manufacturer Smartmatic. The company stated it did not have the legal readiness to operate in Bulgaria. That is why the CEC is issuing an invitation to Information Services, which is the authorized representative of Smartmatic, to negotiate and conclude a contract. The contract shall be awarded by negotiation without competition, in the same way the CEC conducted negotiations with Ciela Norma. The reasons given are the urgent need to have the machines delivered quickly and the little time left until the parliamentary elections.
Wednesday will be sunny until noon, when clouds will move in from the northwest, bringing short, intense showers and thunderstorms. The risk of hail remains high. Lows will be between 17 and 22°C, 17°C in Sofia. Highs will be in the 30-35°C range, 30°C..
In the town of Aksakovo, in the region of Varna, Bulgaria's first all-female bagpipe group was created. This was announced by Nikola Georgiev, head of the "Trakia" bagpipe school. The girls debuted with a video clip on the Internet with a..
For the first time, the Bulgarian Antarctic base on Livingston Island will study in detail the pulsations in the Earth's ionosphere caused by solar storms and the activity of the solar corona. This is envisaged in the first Bulgarian polar..
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