Communication protocol

In Sofia, the transfer of protocols continues at "Arena Sofia" after a night of non-stop counting following the 2-in-1 elections in Bulgaria. The process is progressing smoothly, according to Polina Vitanova, chair of the Municipal Election Commission (MEC) in Sofia. However, familiar errors and corrections in the protocols are still prevalent, as expected.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) will announce the final results of the parliamentary elections on April 6, CEC spokeswoman Rositsa Mateva told BTA.

So far, summary data has been announced on the CEC results website, Mateva emphasized, not final. The commission found that the data from 11 protocols from abroad were not added to them.

The European Union needs to decide on new health protocols that will allow tourists to travel again, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview with CNN aired on Monday.

The CEC began exporting the first data from the processing of election protocols. Here's what the data shows at 11:20.

In Sofia - with 44.49% of protocols counted - Yordanka Fandakova has 36.57% ahead of Maya Manolova, which has 27.30%. There will be a runoff in Sofia next week.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila stated on Friday that a certain moment should come when all the protocols concluded with various institutions of the state must be declassified.

Justice Minister Tudorel Toader wrote in a Facebook post on Friday, in respect to the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) - the Public Ministry protocol, that "it has to be seen to what extent the enforcement of the protocol allowed interferences in fundamental rights and freedoms" and "if and to what extent, by concluding it, the signatories added to the law, substituting the law-maker."

Chief Prosecutor of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi told AGERPRES on Tuesday that DNA had co-operated with the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) before 2013 as well, as requests under the protocol between the two bodies were signed by her predecessor Daniel Morar himself.

Former President of Romania, Chairman of the People's Movement Party (PMP) and Senator Traian Basescu stated that, taking into account the public pressure, the risk of disclosing all protocols signed by the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) should be assumed, mentioning that Romania's Supreme Council of National Defence (CSAT) has nothing to declassify from this point of view.