Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2024 All Rights Reserved

Kristian Vigenin to head OSCE mission of observers at elections in Kazakhstan

Kristian Vigenin
Photo: BGNES

The Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe – OSCE – Kristian Vigenin is to head the mission of observers at the parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan.

Albania, which is in the chair of the OSCE in 2020, singled out Vigenin for special coordinator of the OSCE for the elections in Kazakhstan scheduled for 10 January, 2021.

Kristian Vigenin who is also Vice-President of the Bulgarian National Assembly is to coordinate the work of the international observers on election day, after which he will present, in the capital city Nur-Sultan, the first evaluation of how democratic the elections have been, BTA reports. 



Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

Ivelin Mihaylov of Velichie party

CEC Public Council: For the first time a party is left outside parliament for lack of 21 votes

For the first time in recent election history, the end election result leaves a party running in the election outside the National Assembly with a result of 3.999% (Velichie), 21 votes short of the electoral threshold, reads a position by the..

published on 11/5/24 5:19 PM
Kamelia Neykova

CEC sends CCTV footage from polling stations to prosecutors 

The Central Election Commission (CEC) is sending the prosecutor the video recordings of the ballot count in 7 polling stations where there is a discrepancy in the number of votes counted.  The prosecutors will have to check whether there is..

published on 11/5/24 4:19 PM
Екатерина Захариева

Bulgarian Ekaterina Zaharieva is the EU commissioner for start-ups, research and innovation

The European Parliament has approved the nomination of Bulgarian Ekaterina Zaharieva as European Commissioner. She will be in charge of the 'Start-ups, Research and Innovation' portfolio.  After her confirmation hearing in the European Parliament,..

published on 11/5/24 4:03 PM