Daniel Mitov Ready for Foreign Minister Role Amid Geopolitical Test in Bulgaria
Daniel Mitov, Deputy Chairman of GERB, has expressed his readiness to assume the position of Acting Foreign Minister
Lyutvi Mestan, Chair of the Bulgarian ethnic Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), has vowed to appeal the fine he was imposed by the local election administration in Sliven for addressing his constituents in Turkish.
The fine was imposed Friday by the Regional Electoral Commission in the southeastern city of Sliven on a tip-off from center-right party GERB reporting that Mestan had addressed voters in Turkish during an election campaign rally in the village of Yablanovo on May 5.
Yablanovo Mayor Dzhemal Choban was also penalized by the Regional Electoral Commission in Sliven for addressing voters in Turkish during the same rally.
Bulgaria's Election Code does not allow election campaigns to be conducted in other languages than Bulgarian.
"I will appeal the decision before the Central Electoral Commission because it is based on an openly discriminatory assumption, not only because it contradicts a priority recommendation of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) but mostly because it uses an incorrect discriminatory term, "foreign language","Mestan stated, as cited by the press office of DPS and dnevnik.bg.
"Mother tongue cannot be referred to as a foreign language for any Bulgarian citizen," he commented.
Mestan claimed that the decision of the Regional Electoral Commission in Sliven was discriminatory because it used discriminatory terminology, adding that the document contradicted a priority recommendation of OSCE and the European Convention on Human Rights which Bulgaria had signed and ratified.
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Ivan Portnih, candidate of Bulgaria’s formerly ruling center-right party GERB, has won the battle for mayor of the coastal city of Varna by a slim margin.
Two candidates are vying to be mayor of Bulgaria's third-largest city and summer capital, Varna on the Black Sea coast.
The Sofia City Prosecutor's Office final count of the alleged illegal ballots discovered at a printing house in Kostinbrod hours ahead of the May 12 early elections is 480 000.
The number of apparently illegally printed ballots for Bulgaria's May 12 early general elections has swollen to at least 400,000, according to an announcement by the prosecution.
Bulgaria's formerly-ruling, center-right GERB Party has sent its claim contesting and asking to void the May 12 early general elections results to all European institutions.
Bulgaria's Constitutional Court has decided to try the claim contesting and asking to void the May12 early general elections results.
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