The Administrative Court in Sofia has rejected all complaints against the decision of the Municipal Election Committee (MEC) in the municipal elections for mayor.

Plaintiffs in the case were Ataka, the Democratic Party, the Green Party and independent candidate Georgi Vulchev, mediapool.bg reported.

In its motivation, the Court said that it had asked twice to be given evidence for the accusations that the elections had been tampered with, but plaintiffs did not produce the evidence.

According to the Court, a recount of the ballots should only be done as an exception and not as a rule.

In response to Ataka's claim that ballots had been tampered with during transport and that the ballot-sheets were too transparent, the Court ruled that the ballots had been produced according to requirements, and that the secrecy of vote had been sufficiently secured.

The claim by the Green party that its candidates had been pressured by employees of the Interior Ministry, was rejected for a lack of evidence.

In its ruling against the complaint by the Democratic party about the high number of invalid ballots, the Court argued that the winner in the first round of municipal elections, Boiko Borissov, received 202 800 votes, and the candidate for the Democratic party 6 566.

"Since the difference between the votes for the two candidates was 196 234 votes, and the number of invalid ballots was 17 711, and the number of ballots without envelope was 9 576, even in a hypothetical case in which all these votes would be valid and they all would have been casted for the candidate of the Democratic party, this would still not have changed the results of the elections," the Court said in its motivation.

Appeal is possible within seven days at the Supreme Administrative Court.