This publication of the CWSP on the political participation of men and women in Bulgaria contains pictures and ratios of the numbers of women and men in leading positions in the state institutions of the legislative, executive and judiciary.

The main sources the data and the pictures used in the publication is the available information from the official web sites of the presented institutions, where available. The data for the parliamentary represented political parties and coalitions is according to the decisions for registration for participation in the elections for 40 National Assembly of the Central Electoral Commission. The data for the municipal councilors is from the publication "Local Authorities in the Republic of Bulgaria", 2004 of the National Statistical Institute. The data for the judiciary is from the report "Judicial Reform Index in Bulgaria, April 2004", developed by the American Bar Association's Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI). The symbol * indicates missing information for the relevant structures, which is not reflected in the proportions.The publishers cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions.

All details are, to the best of our knowledge, true and correct as of 1 December 2005, except in the abovementioned data.

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