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Decision No. 1 of 13 March 2025 listed violations in the replacement of polling-station commission members, in the drafting of the polling-station protocol under Article 282(2) of the Electoral Code, in the packing of election material under Article 284, in the live video monitoring and video recording required by Article 272, in establishing the result from both paper and machine ballots under Article 206(1) read with Article 278(2) and (3), and in entering the voting data in the protocol under Article 281. It instructed the Central Election Commission to redetermine the mandate distribution and announce the names of those elected, which the Commission did the same day.

Of 287 ballots examined, the marks on 95 in section 060800027 (Vratsa district), 72 in section 122400033 (Montana) and 106 in section 152400205 (Pleven) were not made by individual voters. The Court recorded those votes as invalid in the recalculated result.

The Court held that the violations it found, although they had a negative effect on the transparency of and trust in the whole electoral process, did not make the voters' will impossible to establish and did not change the result to a degree that would justify annulling the election in full and requiring citizens to vote again. It separately left without consideration, as out of time, a request by 58 members of the 50th National Assembly to declare the election unlawful in the 15th Pleven and 25th Sofia districts.

The Court found the voter-list complaints unfounded, noting that adding an eligible citizen to a list abroad on election day is not in itself a breach and that no evidence was submitted of ineligible people being added. A check by the civil registration directorate GRAO, ordered by the Central Election Commission, identified 10 people who voted abroad without the right to do so and 55 people who voted more than once in the country and abroad combined.