20 ballot boxes to be set up in Tekirdağ for elections
Speaking at an information meeting held in the Ergene district of Tekirdağ regarding the Bulgarian Parliamentary General Elections and European Union Parliamentary elections to be held on Sunday, June 9, 2024, Güner Çetin, the Thrace Representative of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), said, "Now is the time for the 1989 immigrants to support our compatriots who remained there."
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An information meeting was organized by the MRF Thrace Representation at the Marmaracık Lake Restaurant regarding the European Union Parliamentary Election and the Bulgarian early General Elections to be held in the Republic of Bulgaria on Sunday, June 9. District mayors, representatives of non-governmental organizations, and members of the press attended the meeting.
Reminding that they have gone to the polls for the 7th time in the last three years, MRF Thrace Representative Güner Çetin said, "In the last elections held on April 4, 2023, a coalition government was formed in Bulgaria.
A common ground could not be reached, and a decision for early general elections was made. We thank everyone who supported us during these processes. This is a cause above parties, a national cause.
Nearly 10 million Turks and Muslims live abroad. A large portion of them live in the Balkans, and a large portion of those in the Balkans live in Bulgaria," he said.
"WE WANT AT LEAST 100 THOUSAND VOTES FROM TURKEY"
Çetin said, "In the last elections, 2.5 million out of 6.5 million registered voters in Bulgaria went to the polls, which corresponds to 39.9 percent. We want at least 100 thousand votes from Turkey. There are over 300 thousand dual citizens residing in the Republic of Turkey.
We have a total of 20 ballot boxes in our province of Tekirdağ. Our district with the most ballot boxes will be Çorlu with 9 boxes. 5 ballot boxes will be set up in our Ergene district. We have one ballot box each in Süleymanpaşa and Muratlı. One ballot box each will also be set up in Kapaklı, Çerkezköy, and Saray.
We requested one more ballot box each for Kapaklı and the Sağlık neighborhood of Ergene, but no response has been received yet. If we look at the Thrace region in general, our province where the most dual citizens reside is Tekirdağ. There appear to be around 28 thousand voters in total," he said.