„Usually every 10 years the state takes a census of all people living in Bulgaria, whether they are adult Bulgarian citizens, underage Bulgarian citizens or permanent resident foreign citizens. All people count. The census of Bulgaria is currently underway and the interim results are extremely worrying. 5 658 000 people or about 82% of the population were counted, according to the NSI. That is, we can assume with sufficient accuracy that the total population of Bulgaria is about 6. 7 million people. Now I will tell you that in the last census of 2011 the population of Bulgaria was 7 364 570 people.“
This is what leader of „There is Such a People“ /TISP/ Slavi Trifonov wrote in his Facebook post. According to him, the figures show that for 10 years Bulgaria has „melted“ by nearly 700 000 people, which in turn meant that every year our country is „melting“ by one city like Veliko Tarnovo. The truth is that during these 10 years, negative natural growth and external migration have reached an alarming scale for us as a nation. And this is terrible, Trifonov said. His post also reads:
„Today Bulgaria is on the threshold of very important elections – parliamentary and presidential. Now I don’t know if one thing impresses you, but it stings my eyes. So, the entire population of Bulgaria today is about 6.7 million people. And recently the CEC announced that 6 708 189 Bulgarian citizens are eligible to vote in the elections on 14 November. What is coming out? The total population of Bulgaria is equal to the number of people with the right to vote. How does this number work? Apparently, without our knowledge, all the more than 1 million underage Bulgarians in our country have gained voting rights – the children in school, the children in nurseries and kindergartens, the babies at home. Even foreign citizens have gained voting rights.
Joking aside. Actually, the truth is quite simple. The large number of voters is due to the voter lists that have not been updated for years and to the existence of the so-called „electoral rolls“. „dead souls“ in them. The „dead souls“ are not necessarily deceased people, although I assume there will be some on the electoral rolls after several parties once again tried to register for the upcoming elections with the signatures of deceased people.
It must be said that the presence of Bulgarians abroad on the electoral rolls in Bulgaria and the practical impossibility for them to vote, artificially lowers the overall turnout. On the other hand, this is how the major parties have been falsely inflating the percentage of votes for themselves for years.
It is impossible for over 1 million Bulgarians abroad to exercise their constitutional right to vote in 400, 700 or 800 polling stations abroad. These Bulgarians should be included in the political life of their homeland, they „have the right to Bulgaria“.
In general, every Bulgarian citizen should be given the opportunity to vote. This is the only way we will have fairer elections with objective turnout and more representative elections.
Therefore, it must be clear from now on – „There is Such a People“ can only participate in such a governing coalition, which accepts as its main commitment the mandatory introduction of electronic remote voting.
Because Bulgaria is where there is only one Bulgarian, and because everyone has the right to vote.“
