Voters in Turkey with Bulgarian citizenship will vote in a total of 166 sections in the vote on October 2, the number is a record high compared to all previous elections so far, BTA reported.

In the areas densely populated with emigrants from Bulgaria, who are the main contingent of Bulgarian voters in Turkey, such as Istanbul, Bursa, Yalova, Edirne, Chorlu, Izmir, Ankara, etc., the sections will be a total of 40 more compared to the vote in November. .g.

"I expect higher motivation, respectively higher activity from the voters in Turkey compared to the previous vote.

This time the situation is normal - there are no bans due to COVID, it's not a vacation, people are at home, all factors that are an advantage", Kader Özlem, a specialist in international relations, commented to BTA. According to him, it will not be a surprise if 100 thousand people show up to vote. "The question is whether the result of the vote on Sunday will produce a stable government in Bulgaria, as the voters want, which depends on the activity in Bulgaria as well," he believes.

Efraim Kamberoglu, chairman of the Association for Culture and Cooperation of the Balkan Turks in Avjalar, told BTA that there will be three sections in Avjalar, and two of them will have a total of four machines.

"On this basis, we expect increased interest in voting. Because in previous elections, due to the insufficient number of sections and the queues, many people refused to vote. We will see if this time the sections will be sufficient", he said.

Renginar Mutlu, an activist at an expatriate organization in the Kartal district on the Asian side of Istanbul, noted that people prefer to vote close to where they live rather than travel to Bulgaria because of the economic crisis.

In Kartal, two sections with two machines in each will be revealed.

As an activist and because of her good command of the Bulgarian language, Renginar helped her fellow citizens to fill in advance declarations for voting in previous elections.

"I expect that the CEC's decision to accept declarations in Bulgarian, regardless of where they are completed, will now significantly facilitate voting," she said.

Today, on the day of reflection, the procedure for sealing the sections of the country's territory is being carried out in Turkey.

The sealing must be done in the presence of the members of the commissions (4 people for each section), representatives of the Bulgarian diplomatic services and security authorities.

The Turkish security services are entrusted with the protection of the sections, the ballots, ensuring order and security on the election day at the request of the Bulgarian institutions.

The expatriate organizations signaled that in many places the sealing of sections is being delayed considerably because of members of the section committees.

It is said that some have not yet arrived from Bulgaria.

The sealing is expected to last throughout the day and possibly until midnight, the deadline, migrant organizations say.

Voting machines have been placed in a total of 112 sections, with the number of machines being 220. The most machines will be in Istanbul.

Machine voting will take place in 33 out of a total of 51 sections (also a record) on the European coast and on the Asian coast of the metropolis.

Especially for tomorrow's vote in Turkey, observers from different political parties are expected to arrive from Bulgaria.

According to various information, citizens with Bulgarian passports in Turkey who have the right to vote number between 350 and 450 thousand.

Sections across the US are ready for the polls tomorrow