Voting abroad in Bulgaria’s presidential and vice-presidential elections began on Saturday evening, October 24, at 9 p.m. Bulgarian time and will conclude on the morning of October 26, the Foreign Ministry’s press office said.
Bulgarian citizens in Auckland, New Zealand, were the first to have the opportunity to cast their ballots, with polling stations there opening at 9 p.m. Bulgarian time on Saturday.
The last voters to cast their ballots will be Bulgarians in the US states of California and Nevada, where polling stations are scheduled to close at 5 a.m. Bulgarian time on Monday, October 26.
A total of 613 polling stations have been established in 60 countries. The largest number is in the United Kingdom, with 82, followed by Turkiye with 78, Germany with 70, Spain with 67 and the United States with 44.
Italy has 29 polling stations, Greece and the Netherlands 24 each, France 18, Austria 17, Belgium 16, Canada 15, and Moldova and Switzerland 11 each.
Machine voting will be available at 242 polling stations abroad, with a total of 280 voting machines delivered. For the first time, machine voting will be available in Warsaw, Bucharest, Bratislava, Budapest and Helsinki.
Election documents, materials and voting machines were delivered to polling stations abroad in good time by air and land transport, the Foreign Ministry said.
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