Bogus Bookies Deliver Verdict on Bulgaria’s Elections
As Bulgaria got halfway through its early general elections, a news site published bogus horse race bookies’ forecast to pass on runners' likely standings.
As Bulgaria got halfway through its early general elections, a news site published bogus horse race bookies’ forecast to pass on runners' likely standings.
The official site of the Austrian company SORA - Institute for Social Research and Consulting, which is doing a parallel vote count in Bulgaria's May 12 early general elections has crashed.
After half of the ballot protocols in, the parallel vote count has confirmed in general the results of the exit polls in Bulgaria's early general elections.
107,799 Bulgarian citizens have voted abroad by 10 pm Sunday, as voters go to the polling stations on snap parliamentary elections, said the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The far-right nationalist Ataka (Attack) party will not support the centrist Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, GERB, says Ataka leader Volen Siderov.
The center-right GERB party of former Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, won by a 2.8% margin most votes in Bulgaria's general elections, tallying 30.5 % against the Socialists with 27.7%, according to an exit poll of the Mediana polling agency.
Some of the handful of protesters assembled downtown in Bulgarian capital Sofia following snap general elections Sunday have clashed with police.
The recently ousted GERB party holds a slight lead over the opposition Socialists with 30.3% of the votes, but far below 43% needed to hold parliamentary majority, according to an exit poll.
The center-right GERB party of former Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, won by a full 7% margin most votes in Bulgaria's general elections, tallying 34 % against the Socialists with 26%, according to an exit poll of the National Center for the Stud
The Bulgarian Socialist Party is the moral and political winner from Sunday's early parliamentary elections, said top Socialist MP candidate Maya Manolova.
Four Bulgarian parties will certainly make their way to Bulgaria's 42nd General Assembly, according to an exit poll of the Institute for Social Studies and Marketing, MBMD.
Four political parties will surely have lawmakers in Bulgaria’s next Parliament, according to an exit poll.
Bulgaria's former ruling GERB party is ready for for a new cabinet proposal, stated GERB campaign manager and vice-chair Tsvetan Tsvetanov, following the outcome of Sunday general elections.
Protesters have started to gather in Bulgarian capital Sofia soon after voting ended at 8 pm Sunday in Bulgaria's snap parliamentary vote.
Bulgaria's center-right GERB party, which was forced to resign under public pressure in February, took a slight lead over the Socialists in the crucial early general elections, an exit polls say.
The center-right GERB party of former Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, won by a 4 percentage points margin most votes in Bulgaria's general elections, tallying 31.1 % against the Socialists on 27.1%, an exit poll shows.
Former ruling party GERB has won Sunday's snap elections in Bulgaria with some 5-6 percentage points difference over main rivals Bulgarian Socialist Party, according to first exit polls.
Some 216 signals for violations have been registered by the Transparency without Borders association during Sunday's snap general elections of Bulgaria.
A line, over one kilometer long, has formed Sunday in London at the voting section for Bulgaria's early general elections, according to outraged Bulgarian expats.
The small Bulgarian Greens party has come out winning the vote in Tokyo, the first polling station counted in Bulgaria's Sunday snap general elections.
Bulgaria’s caretaker government has failed to perform its most important task - insure fair early parliamentary elections, the Socialist leader argued on Sunday afternoon.
Turnout has reached some 40% towards the end of Bulgaria's May 12 snap parliamentary voting Sunday.
Bulgaria's Ministry of Interior and Central Electoral Commission have issued statements as saying that no significant violations have been registered Sunday, as Bulgarians vote on snap elections.
Bulgaria's former PM Boyko Borisov has once again broken a legislative ban on campaigning during election day, upon casting his ballot Sunday.
Former Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov has resumed his anti-institutional rhetoric on election day Sunday, by saying the prosecution has engaged in "a vile insinuation."
Bulgarian's election authority has fined private channel TV7 for violating a ban on airing campaign materials in the so-called "reflection day" ahead of general elections going on Sunday.
As Bulgaria is past halfway through its early general elections, news sites continue to publish weather forecasts and horse race bettings that code runners' likely standings according to exit polls.
Lyutvi Mestan, leader of the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, cast his ballot in Bulgaria’s key general election on Sunday.
Bulgarian prosecutors have confirmed that there was indeed an attempt for large-scale election fraud ahead of the country’s key Parliament vote on Sunday.
Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergey Stanishev cast a ballot in the country’s general election on Sunday.
Bulgarian caretaker Prime Minister Marin Raykov has criticized political leaders for “breaking the pre-election silence” ahead of Sunday’s crucial general election in the country.
Bulgarian media beat a ban on the release of intermediate results from voting in the early general elections by using a number of tricks, including bogus weather reports, as cover to pass on runners' likely standings.
A relatively high voter turnout has been observed so far in Bulgaria’s crucial general election, according to the country’s electoral body.
President Rosen Plevneliev has once again urged Bulgarians to vote at the parliamentary elections on Sunday.
Dimitar Dimitrov, one of the seven desperate Bulgarians who set themselves ablaze in poverty-stricken Bulgaria, has declared that he would not vote in Sunday’s general elections.
Bulgaria’s former European Commissioner and current centrist party leader Meglena Kuneva voted in the country’s general elections early on Sunday.
Bulgaria’s electoral body has assured citizens that Sunday’s crucial general election in the country will be fair.
There have been no major incidents since Election Day officially began in Bulgaria at 7 am on Sunday, according to the country’s Interior Ministry.
The sale and serving of alcoholic beverages has been banned on Election Day in Bulgaria.
Bulgarians head to the polls in a crucial general election on Sunday amid fears that the vote may be rigged on a massive scale.
Bulgarians go to the polls on 12 May in an early election, four months after mass protests against austerity measures and energy costs forced out the government of the center-right GERB party.
The local promoter has announced that adequate security measures have been taken for the famous UK electronic band Depeche Mode concert Sunday in Bulgarian capital Sofia.
Environmentalists in Bulgaria have alarmed of scandalous illegal construction going on in a protected archaeology site on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast right as Bulgarians go to the polls for parliament Sunday.
Exit polls in Bulgaria's parliamentary elections suggest the centre-right Gerb party of ex-PM Boiko Borisov has a narrow lead over its socialist rivals.
Bulgarians are voting in parliamentary elections with opinion polls predicting no outright winner, raising fears of a hung parliament.
In early April, NovaTV broadcasted an investigation into buying of votes in Bulgaria and the schemes that were being prepared ahead of the elections.
Bulgarian politicians traded accusations Saturday after authorities here seized hundreds of thousands of allegedly illegally printed ballots on the eve of a hotly contested parliamentary election in the European Union's poorest member.
Parliamentary elections are due to begin in Bulgaria with opinion polls predicting no outright winner.
Bulgarians vote in a snap election on Sunday, after mass protests against the poverty and corruption that have driven several people to set themselves on fire in acts of despair.
Only four Bulgarian parties - those which got most discredited over the past decade thanks to corruption and links with the oligarchy - made it to parliament on Sunday.
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