DIMITROV proti Bulharsku

THIRD SECTION

DECISION

Applications nos. 26489/22 and 30249/23

Georgi Dimitrov DIMITROV

against Bulgaria

(see appended table)

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 2 October 2025 as a Committee composed of:

Canòlic Mingorance Cairat, President,
Diana Kovatcheva,
Vasilka Sancin, judges,

and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,

Having regard to the above applications lodged on the various dates indicated in the appended table,

Having deliberated, decides as follows:

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

The list of the applications is set out in the appendix.

The applicant was represented by Mr S. Madin, a lawyer practising in Sofia.

The applicant’s complaints under Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention and Article 14 of the Convention, concerning the ineligibility of convicted prisoners to vote in legislative elections, were communicated to the Bulgarian Government (“the Government”).

On 6 November 2024 the Registry sent a letter to the applicant’s representative requesting information concerning certain documents essential to the processing of the application. No reply was received to this letter.

By letter dated 26 February 2025, sent via the Court’s Electronic Communication Service (eComms), the applicant’s representative was notified that the period allowed for submission of the requested information had expired on 4 December 2024 and that no extension of time had been requested. The applicant’s attention was drawn to Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, which provides that the Court may strike an application out of its list of cases where the circumstances lead to the conclusion that the applicant does not intend to pursue the application. The applicant’s representative downloaded that letter from the eComms platform on the same day. However, no response has followed.

THE LAW

Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single decision.

In the light of the foregoing, and in the absence of any special circumstances regarding respect for the rights guaranteed by the Convention and the Protocols thereto, the Court, in accordance with Article 37 § 1 (a) of the Convention, considers that it is no longer justified to continue the examination of the applications.

Accordingly, the applications should be struck out of the list of cases.

For these reasons, the Court, unanimously,

Decides to join the applications;

Decides to strike the applications out of its list of cases.

Done in English and notified in writing on 23 October 2025.

Viktoriya Maradudina Canòlic Mingorance Cairat
Acting Deputy Registrar President

APPENDIX

List of applications raising complaints under Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 of the Convention

(ineligibility of convicted prisoners to vote in legislative elections)