Parliamentary Elections, 17 June 2001

Following an invitation from the Bulgarian authorities, ODIHR deployed an election observation mission on 19 May for the 17 June parliamentary elections.

Headed by Ambassador Charles Magee of the United States, the mission included six international experts based in Sofia, and four long-term observers deployed in Plovdiv, Varna, and Pleven, together with 132 short-term observers from 23 OSCE participating States, including a delegation of four parliamentarians from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

According to the mission's final report: "The 17 June parliamentary elections in the Republic of Bulgaria met the country’s OSCE commitments for democratic elections, as outlined in the 1990 Copenhagen Document."