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Article 23
 

(1) The Central Election Committee shall:
1. monitor the implementation of this Act within the territory of the country and at the diplomatic missions abroad;
2. provide methodological guidance to and supervise the activities of Constituency and District Election Committees;
3. support a web site on the Internet to publish decisions, methodological instructions, estimated and final results of the elections and other documents and data;
4. set out the terms and conditions for Bulgarian citizens to vote abroad not later than 50 days prior to the election day;
5. appoint Constituency Election Committees and District Election Committees where the Constituency Election Committee has failed to appoint them within the prescribed time limits;
6. register parties and coalitions to run the elections, determine their election ballots and issue certificates;
7. hear petitions against decisions and actions of Constituency Election Committees, issue a final decision thereon within three days and announce it forthwith;
8. set out the terms and conditions for participation of observers not later than 50 days prior to the election day and issue certificates to them;
9. approve and promulgate in The State Gazette the methodology for determining the number of seats in the constituencies and the results of the election not later than 55 days prior to the election day;
10. determine the number of seats in the multi-seat constituencies on the basis of a uniform representation rate for the whole country in accordance with the number of the population;
11. set out the terms and conditions for the competitive bidding for the computer processing of the results of the election not later than 54 days prior to the election day;
12. assign the computer processing of the results of the election to the winner in the competitive bidding not later than 40 days prior to the election day;
13. issue methodological guidance to the Constituency and District Election Committees with regard to the implementation of this Act;
14. set out the terms and conditions for conducting opinion polls on the election day not later than 20 days prior to the election day;
15. announce the results of the elections and issue certificates to the Members of Parliament elected on the basis of the proportional representation system;
16. promulgate the results of the elections in The State Gazette immediately after they are announced;
17. set out the procedure for verifying double voting and assign its application to a team of experts;
18. make the results of the verification under subpara 17 available to the parties concerned and seize the prosecutor’s offices in the event of established double voting;
19. provide the results of the voting by election districts for the whole country on a magnetic carrier to the participants in the elections and publish them in the Internet;
20. publish the results of the election by election districts for the whole country in a special bulletin and on a magnetic carrier not later than 40 days after the election day;
21. submit a copy of the records of the District and Constituency Election Committees to the State Archive Stock;
(2) The decisions of the Central Election Committee shall be communicated by means of publication in a bulletin of the Bulgarian News Agency.
(3) The decisions of the Central Election Committee under para 1, subparas 5, 6, 8, 12 and 14 shall be subject to appeal before the Supreme Administrative Court within three days of their communication. The Court shall issue a final judgement within three days.