ANATOLIY MARINOV v. BULGARIA JUDGMENT In the case of Anatoliy Marinov v. Bulgaria, The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of: Tim Eicke, President, Yonko Grozev, Faris Vehabović, Iulia Antoanella Motoc, Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, Pere Pastor Vilanova, Jolien Schukking, judges, and Ilse Freiwirth, Deputy Section Registrar, Having regard to: the application (no. 26081/17) against the Republic of Bulgaria lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a Bulgarian national, Mr Anatoliy Tsvetankov Marinov (“the applicant”), on 30 March 2017; the decision to give notice of the application to the Bulgarian Government (“the Government”); the observations submitted by the respondent Government and the observations in reply submitted by the applicant; the written comments submitted by Validity Foundation – Mental Disability Advocacy Center, a non-governmental organisation, which had been granted leave to intervene as a third party by the then President of the Fifth Section; the decision of the President to reject the request for withdrawal from the case of judge Grozev, submitted by the Government; Having deliberated in private on 25 January 2022, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date: INTRODUCTION 1. The application concerns the applicant’s right to vote, which he was unable to exercise during the 2017 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, as he had been placed under partial guardianship at that time. The applicant complained of a breach of Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 to the Convention. THE FACTS 2. The applicant was born in 1975 and lives in Sofia. He was represented by Mr K. Kanev, the chairman of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, a non-governmental organisation based in Sofia. On 15 January 2016 the then President of the Fifth Section gave Mr Kanev leave to represent the applicants 1