According to State Administration Minister Nikolai Vassilev, the municipal elections in Bulgaria of October 2007 will cost nearly 18.5 million leva.

The sum would be variable and would depend on where there would be a second ballot, Vassilev said as quoted by Bulgarian National Radio.

Interior Ministry has not decided yet how much money would be used for safeguarding the voting.

State Administration Ministry had already opened the offers of companies interested in producing the stamps of regional election committees. The winner in the tender would have to make 12 900 stamps, each with a unique fife-figure code.

The Ministry had opened a tender for production of voting envelopes. Nearly 12 million non-transparent envelopes, seven million for the first round and an additional five million for the second round, would be produced for the municipal elections.