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
A 5-% threshold for preferential vote at European elections was established by Bulgarian lawmakers.
The decision taken by the MPs late on Thursday lowers the threshold enacted by the current Electoral Code, which is 6%.
This means voters at the European elections will have the option to choose a specific candidate and anyone with more than 5% support could position himself on top of his party's list.
Legislators, however, have also approved the Movement of Rights and Freedoms (DPS) party's proposal that ballots wherein preference has not been marked will automatically be counted as a "preference vote" for the list's current leader, Bulgarian agency Mediapool.bg reports.
MPs from the opposition party GERB claimed that the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party had accepted the measure as a concession to the DPS, which stultifies optional preference vote.
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About 1 200 000 "phantom voters" can be found in Bulgarian elections lists, Mihail Konstantinov, formerly a high-profile official in charge of elections, believes.
Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) starts receiving documents for the registration of political parties and coalitions for the early elections on October 5.
A majority in the European Parliament has approved Jean-Claude Juncker to be President of the European Commission, reports BBC.
The European Parliament is expected to approve on Tuesday the nomination of former Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission.
Former Environment Minister Iskra Mihaylova has become the nomination of the European Parliament's ALDE group to chair the Regional Policy Committee.
The European Parliament has re-elected Martin Schulz for a second presidential term, with 409 votes from the 751 MEPs.